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François I Brandishing a Sword
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonardc. 1815-30
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard developed a dramatic, narrative style of drawing that was well suited for illustration, and this sheet may have been one such design. Like many of his contemporaries, Fragonard was interested in modern history, focusing on important figures of the recent past. Here, he likely depicted the French king François I (1494–1547), a frequent subject of his work.
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- Title: François I Brandishing a Sword
- Creator: Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (French, 1781-1850)
- Date Created: c. 1815-30
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 16.9 x 12.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Carl Robert Rudolph [c. 1884-1974], London, United Kingdom, (Jan Milner, New York, NY), Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.254
- Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with graphite underdrawing and white and yellow gouache heightening on wove paper
- Inscriptions: on verso at left margin, in pencil: no 36 / Fragonard fils / 200F, at upper right, in pencil: 82/24
- Fun Fact: Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard was the son of the famous painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, but developed a very different artistic style than his father.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2019.254
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