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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1931.245
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
After Raphael, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1483 - 1520 Rome, Italy)
Title
Innocence and Justice
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Studies after Raphael in the Vatican
Former Title: Two Studies after Frescoes in the Vatican
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1761
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297602

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream card
Dimensions
19.5 x 27.6 cm (7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible--laid down
  • inscription: lower center, black chalk: Raphaël . au Vatican
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 35

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richard Owen, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Owen, inv. no. 1931.245

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Owen
Accession Year
1931
Object Number
1931.245
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The symbolical figure of Innocence sits at the left heavily draped, turned one quarter right, holding a dove in her hands, which are at her right side; the figure of justice sits at the right, heavily draped, turned one quarter right, with her head in profile; she holds the scales in her left hand and by her right side is an ostrich.

The figure with a dove is copied from the symbolical figure of Innocence who sits at the left of Leo I in Giulio Romano's fresco in the Sala di Constantino. The one at the right is copied from Justice who sits to the left of Pope Urban in the same room. Justice appears in reverse in the second series of aquatints for the Saint-Non publication (pl. 60) in the center of the page, with a figure of Polidoro at either side. The legend is "Frago del . . . Saint Non Sc. 1772."

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 605, p. 326, vol. 3, n.p.
  • Alexandre Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1961-1970), vol. 2, cat. no. 1087, p. 184
  • Jean Cailleux, “Introduction au catalogue critique des ‘Griffonis’ de Saint-Non", Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire de l’Art Français, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1964), pp. 297-372, cat. no. 133, p. 344
  • Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dominique Cordellier, Raphael et l'art français, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1983), cat. no. 98, pp. 115, 155
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1986), cat. no. 43, pp. 139-40, 345
  • Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Pierre Rosenberg, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, exh. cat., Fratelli Palombi Editori (Rome, Italy, 1990), cat. no. 92, p. 145
  • Marianne Roland Michel, "Light and Ruins: Fragonard and Hubert Robert in Rome", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1991), vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, pp. 430-35, p. 433
  • Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXème Siècle, Dessins de la Collection Nicos et Dimitra Dhikéos, auct. cat., Christie's, Monaco (Monaco, 1992), p. 186
  • Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), cat. no. 4, n.p.
  • Sonia Couturier, ed., Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2011), cat. no. 9, pp. 38-39, 219
  • 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), cat. no. 86, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Raphael et l'art français, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 11/15/1983 - 02/13/1984
  • J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, Academie de France a Rome, Rome, 12/06/1990 - 02/24/1991
  • “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993
  • Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10/21/2011 - 01/02/2012
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/28/2016 - 04/27/2016

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