Seated Young Woman Leaning on a Bollard

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1955.185
People: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title: Seated Young Woman Leaning on a Bollard
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Jeune Femme Assise Appuyee contre und Borne
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 1770s
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/297076

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.6 cm (9 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year: 1955
Object Number: 1955.185
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 32, p. 192, repr. p. 93
Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no. 14

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
32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/19/2017 - 09/13/2017

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