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The Funeral of Decius Mus

1774

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

(French, 1732–1806)

France, 18th century

Brush and brown ink and wash over black chalk

Sheet: 24 x 37.6 cm (9 7/16 x 14 13/16 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1980.17

Catalogue raisonné: Ananoff 1098

Location

not on view

Provenance
H. Walferdin, Paris, France
Edmond Borthon, Baron de Dijon
Private Collection, Paris, France
Otto Wertheimer [c. 1878–1973/3] Paris, France
Galerie Les Tourettes, Basel, Switzerland
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York, NY
?–1980
Harriet Whitelaw-Griffin [d. 2018], New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
January 30, 1980–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (1981). p. 216, no. 193, repr. p. 190 www.jstor.org
Stein, Perrin. "Originals, Copies, Mirrors, and Multiples." In Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant: Works from New York Collections. Perrin Stein, et. al., 47-69. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. Reproduced: p. 61, fig. 51. Mentioned: p. 273, no.70
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Louvre éditions: Somogy, 2017. p. 686 Reproduced: P. 686, no. 1471
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).

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).

The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).

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

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