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Sep 16, 2010

Scene in a Park

c. 1760

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

(French, 1732–1806)

France, 18th century

Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and brown and gray wash, and traces of yellow watercolor over black chalk; framing lines in black ink

Support: Beige(2) laid paper laid down on cream(3) wove paper

Sheet: 19.2 x 25 cm (7 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 19.2 x 25 cm (7 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1925.1006

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left, in black ink: [illegible]

Provenance

All according to Ananoff 1968: H. Walferdin (not stamped, not in Lugt); [his sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 12-16 April 1880, p. 58, no. 174] (photocopy of cat. in departmental file); Comte de Turenne, Paris (not stamped, not in Lugt). Comte Arthur de Vogüe (not stamped, not in Lugt). Dudley P. Allen, Cleveland (not stamped, not in Lugt).

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Chinese Landscape Painting. 1954. Mentioned: p. 158, cat. 124; Reproduced: p. 133 archive.org

Williams, Eunice. Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1978. no. 5, illus.

Exhibition history

Rome, Académie de France à Rome, Fragonard et Hubert Robert à Rome (Dec. 6, 1990-Feb. 24, 1991), no. 81, illus. Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher (Nov. 10-Dec. 28, 1981), no. 5, illus. CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (installed Sep. 19, 1962). CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (June 8-July 9, 1962). Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Paris, L'Orangerie; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse (July 30-Sep. 28, 1958; Oct. 24, 1958-Jan. 2, 1959; Feb. 3-Mar. 15, 1959), no. 53, pl. 69 (Fr. trans.?), pl. 62 (New York). CMA, "End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Building" (closed Mar. 13, 1957). CMA, "removed, Director's Corridor" (Oct. 19, 1954). CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" ("rearranged Jan. 21, 1953"). CMA, "Director's Corridor" (from June 30, 1950). Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 18th Century Art of France and England (Apr. 26-May 31, 1950), no. 72. CMA, "removed Gallery II" (July 14, 1949). CMA, "removed Gallery II" (June 3, 1948). CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Gallery II) (Dec. 15, 1944-...). CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Director's Corridor) (July 27-Dec. 8, 1944). CMA, "Paintings and Drawings from the Collection" (Dec. 14, 1943-Jan. 4, 1944). CMA, "hung Gallery II" (Oct. 13, 1940). CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938). CMA, Lace and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937). CMA, "Forty Drawings from the Collection" (May 21-Dec. 13, 1936). CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 12-Sep. 15, 1935). CMA, Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture from the Museum Collection (July 11-Sep. 3, 1934). CMA, Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest: Supplementing Drawings (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934). CMA, "Gallery II" (June 21-Dec. 11, 1933). CMA, "Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932; Feb. 24-Mar. 17, 1932). Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition du paysage français de Poussin à Corot (1925), no. 440

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).

Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937).

Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).

Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 1961-January 7, 1962).

Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (November 16, 1978-January 21, 1979); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (February 15-April 1, 1979); Frick Collection, New York, NY (April 20-June 3, 1979).

French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

Fragonard et Hubert Robert à Rome. French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici, Italy, Rome, Italy (organizer) (December 6, 1990-February 24, 1991).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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