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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.107
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
The Wager (The Burning Wig)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La Perruque Brûlée
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1773-1774
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash over black chalk and graphite, with touches of white gouache on cream antique laid paper toned with brown wash, with framing lines in black chalk and brown ink
Dimensions
35.1 x 46.2 cm (13 13/16 x 18 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • blind stamp: on mount, lower right: EM (L. s. 878 b)
  • inscription: verso, upper left quadrant: 58 45 1/2 [?]
    cat [?] 6 de la
    [doodle] papier Bleute

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
From catalogue card: Coll: Baronne de Ruble; Sigismond Bardac

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.107
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), introduction, cat. no. 99
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), cat. 215, repr. on p. 446
  • Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no. 13

Exhibition History

  • Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
  • “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993

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