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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2011 | Christie's | New York | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part I | 47 | $****** - ****** | Head of an old man |
paintings
41.6 x 33.6 cm (16.38 x 13.23 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'frago' (center right)
(Probably) Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (Paris 1723-1769 Paris); his sale, Paris, 15 February 1770, lot 37 ('Une tête de viellard, vue de face. H. 14 p. 6 l.; L. 12 p.'). (Probably) Emmanuel de Ghendt (1738-1815); his sale, Paris, 15 November 1779, lot 34 ('Une tête de viellard a cheveux blancs, vigoureusement peinte, et execute dans le style de Rembrandt'). (Probably) Anonymous sale; LeBrun, Paris, 3 December 1782, lot 89 ('Un viellard vu a mi-corps; la tête Prèsque de face, et vétu de noir. Cette étude est peinte a l'huile dans le genre de Rembrandt. H. 14 p. 6 l; L. 11 p. T'). Anonymous sale; Paris, 30 January 1843, lot 106. Paul Barroilhet (1810-1871), Paris. Warneck sale, 27-28 May 1926, lot 100. with Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom purchased by. George A. Rentschler, Cincinnati, and by descent to the present owners.
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Masterpieces of Art: European paintings from the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs, 15 January-9 February 1941, no. 19. New York, M. Knoedler & Co. and Columbia University, Masters of the Loaded Brush: Sketches from Rubens to Tiepolo, 4 April-29 April, 1967, no. 72.
R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard: Sa vie, son oeuvre, 2 vols, Paris, 1889, p. 290. P. de Nohlac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806, With a catalogue of the painting sold at auction from 1770 to 1905 by H. Pannier, Paris, 1906, p. 112. G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, no. 192, pl. 22; and no. 197. M. Knoedler & Co., Masters of the Loaded Brush: Sketches from Rubens to Tiepolo, New York, 1967, pp. 97-98, no. 72. P. Rosenberg and F. Bergot, French Master Drawings from the Rouen Museum from Caron to Delacroix, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1981, p. 32, under no. 39. P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, pp. 202, 206, under no. 100, fig. 1. J.P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre, Fribourg, 1987, p. 132, no. 164. P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, p. 91, no. 183.
