The Cupboard (L’Armoire)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard1778

Details

Title: The Cupboard (L’Armoire)
Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Date Created: 1778
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Fragonard 1778 Sculp. invenit”; inscribed, lower right: “A paris chez Naudet M d''Estampes Port au Bled”; inscribed, lower center: “L’Armoire”
Print State: Fourth of four states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1963
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper
Keywords: genre, satire, social satire
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 423 mm x 513 mm (16.65 in. x 20.2 in.).
Bibliography: Wildenstein 23 iv/iv; Baudicour 2 iii/iii (vol. 1, p. 159); Carlson and Ittmann, cat. no. 76; Lawrence and Dighton 57 iv/iv; Rena M. Hoisington and Perrin Stein, "''Sous les yeux de Fragonard'': The Prints of Marguerite Gérard," Print Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2 (June 2012), pp. 159 and following, plate 135 reproduces the Metropolitan Museum of Art impression of this print.
Associated People: Created by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
Accession Number: 1963.35.1

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