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God Summons the Archangel Michael, scene from canto XIV, line 75 of Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso"

ca. 1780-1785

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Title: God Summons the Archangel Michael, scene from canto XIV, line 75 of Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso"
Date: ca. 1780-1785
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: Brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions: 15 3/16 x 10 7/16 in. (38.5 x 26.5 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Ernest Robert Heinzer, in honor of his parents, Janet Watson Heinzer and Ernest Alfred Heinzer
Accession Number: 2023.29.32

Probably the artist’s family. Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris, France, until 1880; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, April 12-16, 1880, lot 228; purchased en bloc by Louis Roederer (1845-1880), Reims; by descent to his nephew Léon Olry-Roederer (1870-1932), Reims and Paris, until 1922; [Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, 1922]; purchased en bloc by Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia; given to his associate John Fleming (1910-1987), until 1955; purchased by Arthur Houghton Jr. (1906-1990), New York. Ernest R. Heinzer (1943-2022), San Francisco, California; from whom bequeathed, 2023.

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