Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Boy Attempting to Restrain a Cow by a Rope

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Boy Attempting to Restrain a Cow by a Rope
Date1760s
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 21 1/4 × 26 in. (54 × 66 cm)
frame: 29 x 33 1/2 in. (73.7 x 85.1 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1988.4
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
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Provenance[Le Roy de Senneville sale, Chariot and Paillet, Paris, April 5, 1780, lot 58, as "Deux tableaux…," withdrawn] [1]; [Paillet, Paris, April 26, 1784, lot 30, as "Deux tableaux…"] [2]; Dulac collection, 1784 (by this time the second painting had already disappeared); probably De Clock Collection, 1864; [H. Winterfeld sale, Sotheby’s, London, December 9, 1936, lot 90; [Galerie Cailleux, Paris]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1988.

[1] Deux Tableaux. Etudes, l’un représente un enfant conduisant une vache, l’autre, l’intérieur d’une étable, où l’on voit une vache, et une jeune fille qui parle à un garçon placé sur le haut d’une échelle. Ces deux morceaux, d’une touche hardie et savante, sont aussi d’un beau ton de couleur. Hauteur 20 pouces, largeur 24 pouces. T.

[2] Deux tableaux, études savantes et d’un bon effet; l’un représente un enfant conduisant une vache; l’autre l’intérieur d’une étable où l’on voit une jeune fille qui parle à un garçon, et plus loin une vache. Hauteur 20 pouces, larg. 24. T.

Exhibition HistoryPeintures de la réalité au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Cailleux, 1945, no. 19

Fragonard, David, Navez, Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1951, no. 14

Peintures et tapisseries du XVIIIe siècle français, Bogota, 1954, no. 4

Oeuvres de Fragonard, Grasse, Musée Fragonard, 1957, p. 22, no. 5, ill.

Art dealer and Collector, Amsterdam, Historische Museum, 1970, no. 24, ill.

Rome 1760-1770, Paris, Cailleux, 1983, no. 27, ill.

Aspects de Fragonard, Paris, Cailleux, 1987, no. 56, ill.

Masterpieces of Baroque Painting from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1992, pl. 50

Five Hundred Years of French Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, 1995, p. 78.

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