Lot 65: Jean-Honor‚ Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Girl playing with a dog and a cat (said to be a Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Colombe) oil on canvas, circular 271/2 in. (69.8 cm.) diam. PROVENANCE (Probably) Marie-Catherine Riggieri (1751-1830), known as Mlle Colombe, chƒteau de Saint-Brice; sold with the chƒteau in 1805, to M. Revanaz, who resold the chƒteau to M. de Guy, mayor of Saint-Brice, and by descent to his son-in-law Colonel de Mondonville, thence to his widow Madame de Mondonville, by whom sold to Ren‚ Gimpel and the marquis de Biron, as of 1906. with Wildenstein & Co, from whom acquired by Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris. Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-99), Tel Aviv. LITERATURE P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806. With a catalogue of paintings sold at auction from 1770 to 1905, by H. Pannier, Paris, 1906, illustrated between pp. 112-13. A. Dayot, 'Fragonard', L'Art et les artistes (special issue) 5, no. 27, June-July 1907, illustrated p. 151. A. Dayot & L. Vaillat, L'Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1907, no. 92, pl. 92. J. Stern, Mesdemoiselles Colombe, Paris, 1923, pp. 52, 167, 168 and 288-9. L. Reau, Fragonard, Brussels, 1956, p. 177. B. de Andia, 'Les Follies de Paris au XVIIIe siecle', M‚decine de France, no. 113, 1960, p. 23, illustrated. J. Cailleux, 'Fragonard as Painter of the Colombe Sisters', The Burlington Magazine, no. 690, supp. no. 4, September 1960, pp. 111-v, p. ii, fig. 2. G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, no. 410, fig. 169. R. Gimpel, Diary of an art dealer, New York, 1966 (French edition, 1963), p. 158. D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, no. 435. D. Sutton, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Fragonard, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1980, under no. 65. J.-P. Cuzin, Fragonard, Life and Work, New York, 1988, no. 301, p. 188, pl. 228. P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, no. 362. EXHIBITION Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Chardin-Fragonard, 1907 (ex -catalogue) Paris, Mus‚e de l'Orangerie, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des Collections fran‡aises retrouv‚s en Allemagne par la Commission de R‚cup‚ration artistique et les Services alli‚s, 1946, no. 16, description by M. Florisoone. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, P. Rosenberg, ed., 1987-8, no. 246. NOTES See note to previous lot.