Offered by Poncelin de Raucourt Fine Arts
Paintings and drawings, from 16th to 19th century
Attributed to Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
Love Victorious
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in
65 x 81 cm
Provenance
Pardo, Paris, 1990
Private Collection, Blois
Private Collection, France
Patrice Marandel attributed our painting — part of a pair with Love on Guard — to Fragonard, suggesting they were likely created for the decoration of a Parisian hôtel around 1770. Our Love Victorious can notably be compared to another putto in a similar pose, depicted on a panel in the salon of the engraver Gilles Demarteau (Paris, Musée Carnavalet). It is also interesting to compare these two works to two small wall composition studies in pen and brown wash depicting Architecture and Poetry (Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, see J.-P. Cuzin, Fragonard, Life and Work, Paris, 1988, reproduced no. 171).
Exhibitions
Three Masters of French Rococo: Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret, Tokyo-Osaka-Yokohama, 1990, reproduced in color nos. 38 and 39.
Publications
Three Masters of French Rococo: Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret, Tokyo-Osaka-Yokohama, 1990, reproduced in color nos. 38 and 39.
