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accession number: 1942.49
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A Boy in a Red-lined Cloak, 1780s. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806). Oil on wood; framed: 36 x 27 x 3.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.); unframed: 20.8 x 16 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.49
title: A Boy in a Red-lined Cloak
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creation date: 1780s
creation date earliest: 1780
creation date latest: 1789
current location: 216B French and German
creditline: Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: oil on wood
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 18th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 36 x 27 x 3.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 20.8 x 16 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Style, Truth and the Portrait
opening date: 1963-10-01T04:00:00
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Tableux et dessins de l' école française, prinipalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirées de collections d'amateurs et exposés au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, scupteurs, architectes et dessinateurs, Paris, France (1860).", 'opening_date': None}
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PROVENANCE
Hippolyte Walferdin [1795-1880], Paris, France
date: By 1860-1880
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1Walferdin was a prodigious collector of works by Fragonard, amassing approximately 80 paintings and over 700 drawings by the artist. According to Wildenstein’s "The Paintings of Fragonard," the painting appeared in an exhibition at Galerie Martinet in 1860 (no. 146). The painting was likely listed as bein
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(Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, Walferdin sale, April 12-14, 1880, no. 4)
date: April 12-14, 1880
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Comte Cahen d’Anvers, probably Edouard [1832-1894]
date: 1880-
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Nicolas Ambatielos [1885-1956], London, England
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(Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY)
date: 1905-1920
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* 1Wildenstein acquired the painting in Paris in 1905.
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Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1942
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 1942-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Burty, Philippe. Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, et exposés au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs. Paris: [Impr. de J. Claye], 1860.
page number: Cat. no. 146
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W. Burger (Thore), "Exposition de tableaux de l'ecole francaise ancienne tires de collections d'amateurs," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VII (1860).
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Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux et dessins de l'école française. 1880.
page number: no. 4
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Portalis, Roger, "La Collection Walferdin et ses Fragonards," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXI, series 2 (1880).
page number: 321
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Nolhac, Pierre de. J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806. Paris: Goupil, 1906.
page number: II, 114
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Francis, Henry S. “Paintings in the Rogers Gift.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 29, no. 4 (1942).
page number: p. 47
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140982
Goncourt, Edmond de, and Jules de Goncourt. French XVIII Century Painters. New York: Phaidon, 1948.
page number: p. V
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 485
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n89
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, and Georges Wildenstein. The Paintings of Fragonard. New York: Phaidon, 1960.
page number: no. 515, p. 316
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Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963.
page number: cat. no. 60
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 141
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n165
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 141
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n165
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 186
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n206
Harsányi, Zoltán, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Fragonard. Budapest: Corvina, 1981.
page number: plate 34
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 70; Mentioned: p. 71
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Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. 1982.
page number: pp. 69-71, cat. no. 30, repr. p. 70
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Cuzin, Jean Pierre. Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Life and Work : Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings. New York: Abrams, 1988.
page number: p. 230, fig. 287; p. 334, cat. no. 384
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Portalis, Roger. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889
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Rosenberg, Pierre. Tout l'œuvre peint de Fragonard. Paris: Flammarion, 1989.
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Portalis, Roger, and J. Rothschild. Honoré Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre. 1889.
page number: p. 281
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Alan Chong, letter to Colin B. Bailey, Feb. 3, 1994, in CMA curatorial file.
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Joseph Baillio, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 18, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.
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