1954.108: The Well-Trained Dog
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1954.108
- People
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attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
- Title
- The Well-Trained Dog
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: "L'Education Fait Tout" from "L'Education du Chien"
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1776
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/294081
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal or black chalk and brown wash on cream anqtique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 35.6 cm (10 x 14 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: ll: Fragonard 1776
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hermant; David-Weill. Study for painting in col. Launay (sale 1792) which later came into the cols. Aubert, Constantine, Stroganoff and Roussel.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
- Accession Year
- 1954
- Object Number
- 1954.108
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Geraldine Norman, "When a Fragonard copy looks just too good to be true", The Times [London] (March 9, 1978), p. 12
Verification Level
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