Jean Honoré Fragonard ou Marguerite Gérard
(Grasse 1732 – Paris 1806) (Grasse 1761 – Paris 1837)

Portrait of a Child

Oil on panel,
10 x 8 cm.

Provenance:
Paris, collection Hippolyte Walferdin.
His estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Me Eugène Escribe, 12–16 December 1880, no. 95 or 96 (same support, same dimensions).
Paris, collection Charles Haviland.
Sale by order of the civil tribunal of Limoges, Paris, Me Lair-Dubreuil, 14–15 December 1922, no. 50 (Marguerite Gérard), acquired by Grange for 3,700 francs.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Georges Haviland collection, 2–3 June 1932, no. 108 (illustrated) (Marguerite Gérard), acquired by Cartroux for 5,200 francs.
Sale Paris, Crédit Municipal, 27 November 2004, no. 13 (attributed to Marguerite Gérard).
Acquired by Hubert Duchemin.
Paris, art trade.
Grasse, Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Hélène and Jean-François Costa Collection.

Litterature:
Sally Wells-Robertson, Marguerite Gérard, 1761-1837, Ph.D. dissertation, University of New York, 1978, 2 vols., p. 1034, no. Mis 117 (rejected attribution).
Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Vie et œuvre. Ca talogue complet des peintures, Fribourg, Office du livre; Paris, Vilo, 1987, p. 256, note 15 (Marguerite Gérard).
Pierre Rosenberg, Tout l’œuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, Flammarion, 1989, p. 119, no. 414 (illustrated) (Fragonard).
Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon, Fragonard, regards croisés, Paris, Mengès, 2007, p. 168, fig. 264 (Fragonard or rather Marguerite Gérard?).
Carole Blumenfeld, Marguerite Gérard, 1761-1837, Montreuil, Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2019, no. 48 P, p. 216, color illus. p. 40 (Marguerite Gérard).

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