Harvard Art Museums > 1992.2: The First Steps Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The First Steps (Jean-Honoré Fragonard) , 1992.2,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 16, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/294444. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1992.2 People Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris) Title The First Steps Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1780-85 Culture French Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/294444 Physical Descriptions Medium Black and white chalk on lightly faded blue antique laid paper Dimensions 17.1 x 22.5 cm (6 3/4 x 8 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: None Provenance Recorded Ownership History Baron R. de Portalis, Paris. [R. Ederheimer, New York], by 1915. Private Collection, France, sold; through [Christie's, New York, January 15, 1992, lot 91], to; Harvard Art Museums, 1992 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Isabella Grandin Fund and Marian H. Phinney Fund Accession Year 1992 Object Number 1992.2 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), repr. as fig. 6, under cat. 303, on p. 573 Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no. 21, discussed and repr. in unpaginated essay Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard, Editions Terrail (Paris, 2006), p. 223, repr. p. 225 (color) Dr. Astrid Reuter, Fragonard: Poesie & Leidenschaft, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, 2013), p. 164, fig. 17/2 Eunice Williams, "Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Two Drawings from the 1780s in the Fogg", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2015), vol. 53, no. 4, Winter, pp. 503-506, p. 503, repr. p. 504 as fig. 1 Perrin Stein, Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant: Works from New York Collections, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, 2016), p. 28, repr. p. 33 as fig. 27 Satish Padiyar, Fragonard: Painting Out of Time, Reaktion Books (London, 2020), pp. 79-80, fig. 45, repr. Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), p, 238, fig. 4 Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Very First Version of "L'enfant chéri", auct. cat., Galerie Malibran (Paris, 2023), p. 5, ill. 3 Exhibition History “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993 HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010 HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/19/2017 - 09/13/2017 Related Works 1961.166 Jean-Honoré Fragonard The First Steps Paintings M23396 Géraud Vidal The First Step Prints Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
