Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci

Jean Honoré Fragonard

1761 · Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink · Drawings and Prints

Directly following his study at the French Academy in Rome, Fragonard traveled in Italy making sketches after Italian artworks for the abbé de Saint-Non, who later had them etched in reverse in his "Recueil de Griffonis." Here Fragonard copied frescoes painted by Annibale and Agostino Carracci over fireplaces in adjacent rooms in the Palazzo Sampieri-Talon, Bologna. The attributions recorded in Fragonard's inscriptions have been reversed by modern scholarship.

Artist

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Date

1761

Medium

Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1960