Satyr Pressing Grapes Beside a Tiger

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Prints and Drawings

1774

Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806)
after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard
Title: Satyr Pressing Grapes Beside a Tiger
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1774
Medium: Brush and brown ink, and brown wash, heightened with traces of white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in brown (?) ink: "h. frago Dresden 1774"
Dimensions: 34.5 × 24.6 cm (13 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamman in honor of Suzanne Folds McCullaugh
Reference Number: 1982.500
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Alan Shestack, “Jean-Honoré Fragonard,” French Drawings: Acquisitions 1970-1984 (New Haven, 1984), p. 46.
Dore Ashton, Fragonard in the Universe of Painting (1988), p. 52 (ill.).
Rubens in Oxford, An Exhibition of Drawings from Christ Church and the Ashmolean Museum (London, 1988), cat. 23 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 100-101, cat. 42 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, “Fragonard,” September 24, 1987-January 4 1988, pp. 398-400, cat. 193 (ill.).
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Wis., “Old Master Drawings from Area Collections,” April 18-June 29, 1997, cat. 24.

Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 12-13, 1980, lot 32. Sold by Galerie Cailleux, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1980.

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