The Bedroom (Le Coucher or Ma Chemise brule)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard1732/1806

Details

Title: The Bedroom (Le Coucher or Ma Chemise brule)
Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Date Created: 1732/1806
Physical Dimensions: overall: 24 x 36.9 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Unidentified collector (blue star, Lugt undescribed). [1] Adrien Fauchier-Magnan, London; (sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1935, no. 13); Richard Owen; Samuel H. Kress 1936; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art [1] According to 1987 correspondence between the National Gallery of Art Department of Graphic Arts and M. Pierre Rosenberg, Departement des Peintures Musée du Louvre, the barely visible blue star on the lower left edge of the drawing could be even a stray crayon mark; hence it seemed doubtful that it would be a collector’s mark. See NGA curatorial files.
Medium: brush and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

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