FRAGONARD, Jean Honoré (1732-1806) - Lot 143

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FRAGONARD, Jean Honoré (1732-1806) - Lot 143
FRAGONARD, Jean Honoré (1732-1806) Allegory of Temperance and The Death of Adonis, after Luca Giordano. Black stone proof 290 x 210 mm. Provenance: Grindel, Rouen, acquired July 7, 1962 Paul and Florence Vercier Collection (L. 3607), no. 20 Bibliography: Ananoff, L'œuvre dessiné de Jean Honoré Fragonard, III, Paris, 1963, p. 336, under n°1073 ; Le dessin [XVIe - XXe siècle] à travers une collection havraise, 1987, n°52. The original drawing for this proof is in the British Museum, London (1936,0509.30). It is a detail from Luca Giordano's ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, one of 71 drawings produced for the Abbé de Saint-Non in 1761 during a trip from Naples to France.
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