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A Game of Horse and Rider
Jean-Honoré Fragonardc. 1775/1780
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: A Game of Horse and Rider
- Creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Date Created: c. 1775/1780
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 115 x 87.5 cm (45 1/4 x 34 7/16 in.) framed: 145.1 x 116.8 x 12.1 cm (57 1/8 x 46 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly William Williams Hope [1802-1855], Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and Paris; possibly by gift to Madame Jenny Colon [1808-1842], Paris.[1] Emile [1800-1875] and Isaac [1806-1880] Péreire, Paris, by 1864; (Péreire sale, at their residence by Pillet and Petit, Paris, 6-9 March 1872, no. 61); Frédéric-Alexis-Louis Pillet-Will, comte Pillet [1837-1911], Paris, until at least 1910.[2] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London), by 1932;[3] Calouste Gulbenkian [1869-1955]; (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London);[4] sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[5] gift 1946 to NGA. [1] For the Hope-Colon provenance, see W. Bürger, "Galerie de MM. Pereire," _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_ ser. I, 16 (April 1864): 201. [2] The painting was lent by Pillet-Will to an exhibition in Berlin in 1910. [3] The painting was lent by Wildenstein to a 1932 exhibition in London. [4] Georges Wildenstein's letter of 21 January 1952 to John Walker (NGA curatorial files) confirms Gulbenkian's ownership and the fact "that my father bought [it] back from him." [5] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/40.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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