Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Lot 20

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Angels making music, after Francesco Solimena

Closed31 January 2013

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Angels making music, after Francesco Solimena
inscribed 'Du Solimena Eglise de St Paul a Naples'
black chalk, a reworked counterproof
10¾ x 6 5/8 in. (27.3 x 16.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 5-7 December 1974, lot 549.

Specialist note

Solimena's fresco is in the church of S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples. Fragonard's drawing from which this counterproof was taken is in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (Inv. A. 2628; Rosenberg and Brejon de Lavergnée, op. cit., p. 340, no. 21, illus.).