Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Love as Folly
c. 1773/7656.2 x 47.3 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 453
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 32
Provenance
Possibly Dennoor sale, Le Brun, Paris, 5-7 April 1797, nr. 73
Rothschild collections, probably Paris and London
Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937), Pittsburgh and Washington, by 1934
by inheritance to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969), New York
bequest 1970 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
A Boy as Pierrot
The Pursuit
Mountain Landscape at Sunset
c. 1765
c. 1765
The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned
1771-72
1771-72
A Young Scholar