JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD
Grasse 1732-1806 Paris
Two Cypresses in an Italian Garden
Two shades of red chalk
10 ⅝ x 12 13/16 inches
269 x 325 mm
Provenance
Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1978
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Learsy, New York, until 1998
Exhibitions
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Sanguines: Dessins français du dix-huitième siècle, 1978, cat. no. 13, illustrated
New York and Washington, The Morgan Library and Museum and National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, cat. no. 60, illustrated (entry by M. M. Grasselli)
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, and Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2013, cat. no. 72, illustrated, p. 8
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant: Works from New York Collections, 2016-2017, cat. no. 65, illustrated (entry by E. Williams)
Drawn circa 1774
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK