Details
- Artist Name: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
- Title: Study after Nicolas Poussin: Theseus Finding the Sword of His Father (from the Tillot Collection)
- Date: 1760-61
- Medium: Black chalk on paper
- Dimensions: 17-3/4 x 13 in. (45.1 x 33.0 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1970.03.064.D
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
Comtesse de Bearn-Behague, Paris (began acquiring the drawings in 1894, sold 1927 to;
Hon. Irwin Laughlin, Meridian House, Washington, D.C., by descent to his daughter;
Mrs. Hubert Chanler, Geneso, New York (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1959, lot 17, to);
[Maggs Brothers, Ltd., London].
Private Collection.
[Fl. Tulkens, Brussels, Bookseller, sold 1970 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Fragonard Drawings from North American Collections
- National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), 1978-11-19 to 1979-01-21
- Fogg Art Museum, 1979-02-16 to 1979-04-01
- The Frick Collection, 1979-04-20 to 1979-06-03
18th Century Drawings from California Collections
- Montgomery Art Center, 1976-01-16 to 1976-02-29
- Sacramento, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1976-03-14 to 1976-04-11
Fragonard's Enterprise: The Artist and the Literature of Travel
- Norton Simon Museum, 2015-07-17 to 2016-01-04
An Exhibition of 100 Drawings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
- Norton Simon Museum, 1979-05-03 to 1979-09-28
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 716 p. 331
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