Landscape with Washerwomen (Primary Title)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806 (Artist)
Fragonard, like many of his European contemporaries, greatly admired 17th century Dutch art despite the official disrespect shown for it in contemporary French Academic circles. Though this brooding landscape particularly recalls similar subjects by Jacob van Ruisdael, it is highly original and the artist signed it twice.
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
French Painting in the Age of Mme. De Pompadour, Musee de Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France, October 11, 2008 - January 12, 2009; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, February 7 - May 17, 2009
Perspectives on Romanticism, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 29 - July 18, 1993
Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, November 10 - December 27, 1981
Important Painting of the French XVIII Century, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London, March 21 - April 28, 1956
Paintings of the French Countryside, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, October -November 1945
Retrospective Exhitibion of Landscape Painting, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, January 20 - February 9, 1931
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY, 1926
Perspectives on Romanticism, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 29 - July 18, 1993
Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, November 10 - December 27, 1981
Important Painting of the French XVIII Century, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., London, March 21 - April 28, 1956
Paintings of the French Countryside, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, October -November 1945
Retrospective Exhitibion of Landscape Painting, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, January 20 - February 9, 1931
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Wildenstein Galleries, New York, NY, 1926
Champsecret Collection, Paris, by 1780; [1] Purchased by the Aubert Collection, Paris in March 1787. [2] Collection of Hippolyte Walferdin [1795-1880], Paris; [3] Purchased by the Malinet Collection, Paris in 1880; Collection of A. Courtin, Paris until 1886. Collection of Baron Vitta, Paris. (Wildenstein Gallery, New York). Private collection, USA. (Newhouse Galleries, New York) by 1980; Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in December of 1980. [4]
[1] Purchased by Champsecret at the sale of Lebrun (possibly French connoisseur and art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun [1748-1813]) and others, December 11-16, 1780, lot no. 181. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[2] Purchased by Aubert at the Lambert and du Porail sale of March 27, 1787, lot no. 223. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[3] Sold at the Walferdin sale on April 12-16, 1880, lot no. 7, and bought by Malinet. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[4] Accessioned December 10, 1980. See VMFA Curatorial file.
[1] Purchased by Champsecret at the sale of Lebrun (possibly French connoisseur and art dealer Jean-Baptiste Pierre Le Brun [1748-1813]) and others, December 11-16, 1780, lot no. 181. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[2] Purchased by Aubert at the Lambert and du Porail sale of March 27, 1787, lot no. 223. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[3] Sold at the Walferdin sale on April 12-16, 1880, lot no. 7, and bought by Malinet. See The Paintings of Fragonard (New York: Doubleday and Co., 1960), 233.
[4] Accessioned December 10, 1980. See VMFA Curatorial file.
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