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Shaded Walk ('L'Allee Ombreuse')

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1732-1806

Title

Date of Production

1775 - 1780

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 14.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.230

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (b. 1853), L.897 (lower right); Jacques Guérin; his sale, Hotel Drouot (Paris), 20-21 December 1922, lot 56 (repr., as by Hubert Robert); Albert Henraux, Paris (1881-1953) (according to 1957 catalogue); Tony Mayer; his sale, Galerie Charpentier (Paris), 3 December 1957, lot 3 (repr.); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (600,000 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982

Literature

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 166

Ananoff, Alexandre, L’oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): Catalogue raisonné, 3 vols., Paris 1961-70
vol. III, no. 1522

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 230
pl. LV
as Fragonard, dated c. 1775-80

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre, but unable to see clearly due to backing sheet. Examined with paper conservator using VSC 8000 but unable to determine if the mark belongs to main sheet or backing sheet, and could not see clearly enough to identify - appears to be quite large and possibly a coat of arms. Photograph in object file.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Eugène Rodrigues (L.897).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): lower centre and lower left, several lines in graphite now erased and illegible, can only see that penultimate line begins "Ch[...]"; lower right, graphite, crossed through: "Fragonard" and below that, also graphite: "T.H." [or "J.H."].

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