Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Love the Sentinel
c. 1773/7656.2 x 47.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower center: frago
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Literature
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 33
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
The Fountain of Love
The Musical Contest
Portrait of a Man
1768/70
1768/70
A Boy as Pierrot
The Pursuit