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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 3, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 32 | $****** - ****** | THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE |
paintings
47 x 37.5 cm (18.5 x 14.76 in)
oil on canvas
Monsieur Bérend, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Chevalier, 2 December 1889, lot 4, for 4050 francs;
There acquired by Marcel Bernstein (1840–1896), Paris;
Thence by descent to Henry Bernstein (1876–1953), Paris;
Bartholoni Collection (according to the 1959 sale catalogue below);
With Wildenstein, New York;
Irwin B. Laughlin (1871–1941), Washington, D.C.;
Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs Hubert Chanler (1914–1999), New York;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1959, lot 22, for £3500;
With Wildenstein, New York;
From whom acquired by the late collector in 1988.
Paris, Champs de Mars, Exposition des arts au début du siècle, 1891, no. 367;
Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, and Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Fragonard, 18 March – 11 May 1980 and 24 May – 29 June 1980, no. 81;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, February–May 1988, no. 283A;
New York, Colnaghi, 1789 French Art During the Revolution, October–November 1989, no. 23;
Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love, 28 October 2007 – 21 January 2008 and 12 February – 4 May 2008.
G. Bourcard, Catalogue de dessins, gouaches, estampes, tableaux du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1893, p. 190 (as a sketch);
P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, Paris 1906, p. 116 (as a sketch);
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London 1960, pp. 28, 308, no. 487,
reproduced fig. 200 (as a sketch);
Wallace Collection Catalogues: Pictures and Drawings, London 1968, p. 117;
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L’opera completa di Fragonard, Milan 1972, p. 109, no. 518, reproduced fig. 518;
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, III: French before 1815, London 1985, p. 155 (as a sketch for the Wallace Collection painting);
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, vie et œuvre-catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg and Paris 1987, p. 332, no. 374, and p. 332, under no. 373, reproduced p. 212, fig. 263;
D. Sutton, 'Selected Prefaces: Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The World as Illusion', Apollo, CXXV, February 1987, 300, pp. 112–113, reproduced p. 111, fig. 10;
P. Rosenberg, Tout l’œuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, p. 118, no. 409;
C. Bailey in 1789: French Art During the Revolution, exh. cat., New York 1989, pp. 190–94, no. 190, reproduced;
A. Molotiu in Fragonard’s Allegories of Love, exh. cat., Los Angeles 2007, pp. 37, 40–41, reproduced p. 40, fig. 30 (as a sketch).
oil on canvas
47 x 37.5 cm.; 18 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
