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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 26, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Master Paintings & Sculpture Evening Sale | 49 | $****** - ****** | THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE |
paintings
oil on canvas
Monsieur Berend;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2 December 1889, lot 4;
There acquired by Marcel Bernstein;
Thence by descent to Henry Bernstein;
Bartoloni Collection;
With Wildenstein, New York;
Irwin Laughlin, Washington, D.C.;
Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Hubert Chanler, New York;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1959, lot 22;
With Wildenstein, New York;
From whom acquired by the late collector in 1988.
Paris, Champs de Mars, Exposition des arts au début du siècle, 1891, no. 367;
Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Fragonard, March-June 1980, no. 81;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, February-May 1988, no. 283A;
New York, Colnaghi, 1789 French Art During the Revolution, October-November 1989, no. 23;
Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love, October 2007 – May 2008.
G. Bourcard, Catalogue de dessins, gouaches, estampes, tableaux du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1893, p. 190;
P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, Paris 1906, p. 116;
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London 1960, pp. 28, 308, cat. no. 487,
reproduced fig. 200;
Wallace Collection Catalogues: Pictures and Drawings, London 1968, p. 117;
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L’opera completa di Fragonard, Milan 1972, p. 109, cat. no. 518, reproduced fig. 518;
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures III: French before 1815, London 1985, p. 155;
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, vie et oeuvre-catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg and Paris 1987, p. 332, cat. no. 374, reproduced, and cited p. 332, under no. 373, reproduced p. 212, fig. 263;
D. Sutton, “Selected Prefaces…, Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The World as Illusion,” Apollo, CXXV, February 1987, 300, pp. 112-113, reproduced p. 111, fig. 10;
P. Rosenberg, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, p. 118, cat. no. 409;
C. Bailey in 1789: French Art During the Revolution, exhibition catalogue, New York 1989, pp. 190-194, cat. no. 190, reproduced;
A. Molotiu, Fragonard’s Allegories of Love, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 2007, pp. 37, 40-41, reproduced p. 40, fig. 30.
