Jean-Honoré Fragonard
A Game of Hot Cockles
c. 1775/80115.5 x 91.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 459
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 39
Provenance
Possibly William Williams Hope (1802-1855), Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, and Paris
possibly by gift to Madame Jenny Colon (1808-1842), Paris
Emile (1800-1875) and Isaac (1806-1880) Péreire, Paris, by 1864
Péreire sale, at their residence by Pillet and Petit, Paris, 6-9 March 1872, nr. 60
Frédéric-Alexis-Louis Pillet-Will, comte Pillet (1837-1911), Paris, until at least 1910
with Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London, by 1932
Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955)
with Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London
sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1946 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Souvenir
Diana and Endymion
c. 1753/56
c. 1753/56
The Swing
c. 1775/80
c. 1775/80
The Happy Family
c. 1775
c. 1775
Girl Playing with Her Dog (La Gimblette)
c. 1770
c. 1770