Woman with a Parrot

1780-1790

Not on view

Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Title: Woman with a Parrot
Date: 1780-1790
Place of Creation: France
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: Reworked red-chalk counterproof, with autograph additions in graphite and brown wash, on cream laid paper, inscribed in brown wash 'Fragonard' (lower left)
Dimensions: 13 15/16 x 9 3/16 in. (35.4 x 23.4 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Henry Potter Russell
Accession Number: 1966.54

François Renaud mount (end of 18th century) (L. 1042). F. R. Mailand, sale 4 April 1881, no. 58 (according to Heseltine coll. cat., 1900); A. Piat (sale, Hotel Drouot, 22-24 February 1897, no. 650, listed as La jeune femme a l'oiseau attributed to Fragonard); John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929) (L. 1507); with Wildenstein, New York, 1913, William H. Crocker, New York; Mrs. Henry Potter Russell, gifted in 1966.
London, National Loan Exhibition, 1909-1910, no. 89; Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de Dessins de l'ecole francaise du dix-huitieme siecle, provenant de la collection Hseltine, 1913, p. 21, no.34; N.Y., E. Gimpel and Wildenstein Gallery, Fragonard, 1914, no. 30; San Francisco, de Young Museum, Crocker Drawings, 1935; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, French 18th century drawings from the permanent collection, May - Oct 1977; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (MA), Fragonard in North American Collections, 1979; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 3 Aug - 13 Oct 1985; ; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, The First Fifty Years, Celebrating the AFGA, 1948 - 1998, 18 April - 5 July, 1998.

Currently on view