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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 24, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Old Master Paintings and Sculpture Session 1 | 91 | $****** - ****** | The watering place |
paintings
51.5 x 63 cm (20.28 x 24.8 in)
oil on canvas
Anonymous sale (Mme. de Saint-Sauveur), Paris, February 12, 1776, lot 53
Randon de Boisset
His sale, Paris, February 27, 1777, lot 230, for 1,650 livres to Mercier
Anonymous sale, Paris, May 23, 1780, lot 40, for 800 livres
Possibly the Comte de Choiseul Gouffier, by 1783
Duc de Choiseul (or Chabot)
His sale, Paris, December 10, 1787, lot 67, for 610 livres to Dulac
Probably anonymous sale, Paris, July 8, 1793, lot 14
Laperlier
His sale, Paris, April 11-13, 1867, lot 33, for 790 francs to Féral
Hippolyte Walferdin by 1860
His sale, Paris, April 3, 1880, lot 14, for 1,230 francs
Mme. Charles Kestner, by 1889
G. de Lauverjat
Arthur Veil-Picard, Paris
Thence by descent to Mme. J. Veil-Picard, Paris
Anonymous sale, Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, June 20-21, 1987, lot 289
Private Collection, Switzerland
With Colnaghi & Co., New York
From whom purchased by the present collector on August 4, 1988
Private Collection, New York
Anonymous sale, ("Property of an American Collector"), New York, May 27, 2004, lot 39.
Paris, Salon de la Correspondance, August 1783, no. 156 (or 157); Probably Paris, Galerie Martinet, Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle tirés de collections d'amateurs, 1860, no. 158 (where the description coincides fairly well, but not the dimensions- 35 by 45 cm. - and the painting is said to belong to Walferdin); London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, 1954-55, no. 210; Zurich, Kunsthaus, Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1955, no. 92; Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Fragonard, March- June 1980, no. 29; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, September 1987-May 1988, no. 92.
Journal de Paris, March 25, 1777, no. 84, p. 2, no. 230 (the text is incomplete); C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis la Renaissance jusqu'à nos jours, Vol. II, Paris 1862, p. 15; E. and J. de Goncourt, Fragonard, Paris 1865 (republished in L'Art du XVIIIe siècle, 1906), p. 339; Le Hir, "Compte-rendu de la vente du 11-13 avril 1867," Journal des amateurs d'objets d'art et de curiosité, 1867, p. 128; R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard: Sa Vie, son oeuvre, Paris 1889, pp. 127, 269, 289; P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806, Paris 1906, p, 140; G. Wildenstein, "L'Exposition Fragonard au pavillon de Marsan," Revue de l'art français, no. 7, July 1921, p. 20; J. Wilhelm, "Fragonard as a Painter of Realistic Landscapes," Art Quarterly 11, Fall 1948, p. 302; L. Réau, Fragonard, Paris 1956, pp. 183 and 186; G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, Aylesbury and Paris 1960, p. 226, no. 126, reproduced fig. 78; J. Thuillier, Fragonard, Geneva 1967, pp. 71-72; D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan 1972, p. 93, no. 158, reproduced p. 92; J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Vie et oeuvre, Catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg 1987, pp. 279-80, no. 110, reproduced p. 280 (as circa 1763-65); P. Rosenberg, in Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, p. 195, no. 92, reproduced p. 196 (as tentatively datable to the 1770s); P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, p. 86, no. 131.
