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Woman with a Parrot

1780–1790

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

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Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)
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 (1843-1929), London (L. 1507); with Wildenstein, New York, 1913, William H. Crocker (1861-1937), Sacramento (CA); Mrs. Henry Potter Russell, 1966, gifted to the Achenbach, 1974.
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 Heseltine, 1913, p. 21, no.34; New York, 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, 1978-1979; 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 Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1948 - 1998, 18 April - 5 July, 1998.
David Wilton Steadman, Carol Margot Osborne, 18th Century Drawings from California Collections, Montgomery Art Gallery, 1976, fig. 7, p. 19
Phyllis Hattis, Four Centuries of French Drawings in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1977), p. 93, no. 53;
Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, Washington and Cambridge (MA), 1978, p. 138, no. 55;
Robert Flynn Johnson et al., eds., Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, 1985, p. 43;
Cara D. Denison and Stephanie Wiles, Fantasy and Reality: Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection, New York, 1995, p. 38.
Perrin Stein, Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant, Works from New York Collections (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016), p. 213, fig. 111.
Wallace Collection, "Fragonard's The Swing", online article on www.wallacecollection.org/explore/explore-in-depth/fragonards-the-swing/origins-of-the-swing/the-artist/

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