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Don Quixote about to Strike the Helmet
Jean-Honoré Fragonard1780s
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Don Quixote about to Strike the Helmet
- Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Date Created: 1780s
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 39.8 x 27.4 cm (15 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Probably Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, Paris, by 1795, one of 19 Don Quixote illustrations by Fragonard owned by him (sale, Paris, 1826, no. 728 [the group]); to Delaunay. Lt. Col. E. W. Blunt Mackenzie, Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Scotland (sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1933, no. 91); The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.(not in Lugt), 1933; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York; gift to NGA, 2000.
- Medium: brush with brown and gray washes over charcoal on laid paper, laid down
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