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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French, 1732–1806
The Water Jets (Les jets d'eau)
c. 1765–70
Image Caption
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Water Jets (Les jets d'eau), c. 1765–70, brush and brown ink and brown wash over pencil on laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1967
Medium
brush and brown ink and brown wash over pencil on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall: 10 7/16 x 15 1/8 in. (26.5 x 38.4 cm)
Object Number
1955.1967
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
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Lilley, Ed. "Lost Works of Art: The Problem and a Case Study". Art History. Paignon-Dijonval; Morel de Vindé.. Le Cabinet de M. Paignon-Dijonval.. Paris: Impr. de Madame Huzard.. 1810.. Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1732-1806. 4 volumes, 1861-70. Paris: F. de Nobele. 1861. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt.. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle.. Paris: A. Quantin.. 1883.. Roger Portalis.. Fragonard, Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre.. Paris: M. M. George Chamerot.. 1889.. Leon Marotte and Charles Martine.. Honoré Fragonard (Dessins de maîtres français, 6).. Paris: Helleu et Sergent.. 1927.. Gabriel Henriot.. Collection David Weill, 3, Dessins.. Paris: Braun & Cie.. 1928.. Georges Grappe.. La vie et l'oeuvre de J.-H. Fragonard.. Paris: Les Editions Pittoresques.. 1929.. Paris: Wildenstein.. Le dessin français dans les collections du XVIII siècle.. 1935.. New York: Wildenstein.. French 18th Century Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings from the David Weill Collection.. Nov.-Dec. 1938.. Florian Rodari.. Fragonard: L'instant désiré.. Paris: Ed. Herscher.. 1944.. Florian Rodari.. Fragonard: L'instant désiré.. Paris: Ed. Herscher.. 1944.. Gabriel Henriot.. "La Collection David Weill.". Amour de l'art, 6.. (1952).. Louis Reau.. Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre.. Brussels: Elsevier.. 1956.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Edward Lucie-Smith.. Eroticism in Western Art. World of Art Series.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1972.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Williams, Eunice. Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 1978-Jan. 21, 1979; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Feb. 16-April 1, 1979; Frick Collection, New York, April 20-June 3, 1979. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. 1978. Tilly, Andrew. Erotic Drawings. Oxford: Phaidon Press. 1986. Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Hermann Bauer and Hans Sedlmayr.. Rokoko: Struktur und Wesen einer europäischen Epoche.. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag.. 1991.. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Pierre Rosenberg.. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres.. Princeton University Press.. 2000..
Provenance
Varanchon de Saint-Geniès (sale 1777); Paignon-Dijonval (to Morel de Vindé); Morel de Vindé; Jacob de la Lottière (to Templier); Émile Templier (to Desclosières); Desclosières (to David Weill, 1913); David Weill (to Wildenstein); G. Wildenstein (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1941).