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Love the Sentinel
Jean-Honoré Fragonardc. 1773/1776
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Love the Sentinel
- Creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Date Created: c. 1773/1776
- Physical Dimensions: overall (oval): 55.9 x 46.7 cm (22 x 18 3/8 in.) framed: 83.8 x 62.2 x 10.2 cm (33 x 24 1/2 x 4 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly Jean François Leroy de Sennéville [1715-1784], Paris; possibly (his sale, Chariot and Paillet at Hôtel de Bulion, Paris, 5-11 April 1780, no. 56); possibly purchased by Verrier. possibly Marquis de Véri; possibly (his sale, Paillet, Paris, 12 December 1785, no. 39); possibly purchased by Millin. possibly Folliot; possibly (Folliot sale, Regnault, Paris, 15 April 1793, no. 50). Marquis des Isnards; (Wildenstein, London, New York, and Paris); probably held jointly with (Ernest Gimpel, New York); sold 1905/1906 to John Woodruff Simpson [1850-1920], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Katherine Seney Simpson [d. 1943], New York; by inheritance to her daughter, Jean W. Simpson [1897-1980];[1] gift 1947 to NGA. [1] Georges Wildenstein wrote to Fern Shapley that his father had purchased this painting and its pendant, _Love as Folly_ (NGA 1947.2.1), from the marquis des Isnards, whose unwritten family tradition was that they had owned the pair since they were painted (letter of 21 June 1948, in NGA curatorial files). The "CA" numbers on the stretchers of both paintings, and the corresponding prospectus for the pair (in NGA curatorial files) indicate that they were on consignment with M. Knoedler & Co. at some time during the Simpsons' ownership. See entry on page 17 of Commission Book 4, Knoedler Records, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, copy in NGA curatorial files.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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