Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard

Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine|Tiburce de Mare

ca.1880 · Etching, printed in brown ink · Drawings and Prints

This etching is based on a portrait drawing by Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine (1751-1824) depicting Fragonard holding a porte-crayon. The drawing dates to 1797 and was owned by Hippolyte Walferdin, the great 19th-century collector of Fragonard's drawings. The print was likely made in 1880, at the time of Walferdin's estate sale, when his collection would have been on public view. In the drawing, Lemoine has placed fragonard against a flat backdrop. In the etching, Tiburce de Mare has added a stormy mountainous coastline.

Artist

Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine|Tiburce de Mare

Date

ca.1880

Medium

Etching, printed in brown ink

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2019