FJK 047

Fragonard Jean-Honoré (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)

Three Head Studies: The Procuress

Vers 1770
8 45/64 × 14 21/64 in. (221 × 364 mm)

Medium
Bistre wash and traces of charcoal on watermark paper: W/M : D & C Blauw

Certificate

Certificate dated April 29, 2003 from Mrs. Eunice Williams, Cambridge (Massachusetts)

Origin

Mr. Jombert father Collection, Paris
His sale, Paris, April 15, 1776, no. 223
Hyppolyte Walferdin Collection, Paris
Posthumous sale, Paris, Drouot, April 12-16, 1880, no. 208 (250 francs)
Albert Hecht Collection, Paris
E. Pontremoli Collection, Paris (Albert Hecht’s granddaughter)
Wildenstein & Co, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Avnet Collection, New York
Their sale, Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, June 7, 1978, no. 89
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, Monaco, March 5, 1984
Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection, Amsterdam (Acc. no. B-113)
Sale, Christie’s, London, The Dreesmann Collection, April 11, 2002, no. 672
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6034
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

PORTALIS Roger, Honoré Fragonard, sa vie, son œuvre, Paris: J. Rotschild Press, 1889, vol. II, p. 313.

ALGOUD Henri, Fragonard, Monaco, 1941 (frontispiece of the preface).

ANANOFF Alexandre, L’œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Paris: F. de Nobele, 1961, vol. I, p. 70, no. 100, fig. 45 and cover; vol. II, p. 298, no. 100.

Exhibitions

Paris, Jacques Seligman et Fils, Exposition de dessins de Fragonard, 1931, no. 146.

London, Wildenstein, Drawings by the Masters, XVth to XIXth Centuries, 1960, p. 7, no. 128.

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, 1969, no. 21.