id: 122166 accession number: 1942.49 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.49 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:51.854000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- 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} --- PROVENANCE Hippolyte Walferdin [1795-1880], Paris, France date: By 1860-1880 footnotes: *
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
citations: (Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, Walferdin sale, April 12-14, 1880, no. 4) date: April 12-14, 1880 footnotes: citations: Comte Cahen d’Anvers, probably Edouard [1832-1894] date: 1880- footnotes: citations: Nicolas Ambatielos [1885-1956], London, England date: footnotes: citations: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY) date: 1905-1920 footnotes: *
1Wildenstein acquired the painting in Paris in 1905.
citations: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1942 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1942- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: W. Burger (Thore), "Exposition de tableaux de l'ecole francaise ancienne tires de collections d'amateurs," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VII (1860). page number: url: Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux et dessins de l'école française. 1880. page number: no. 4 url: Portalis, Roger, "La Collection Walferdin et ses Fragonards," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXI, series 2 (1880). page number: 321 url: Nolhac, Pierre de. J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806. Paris: Goupil, 1906. page number: II, 114 url: 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 url: 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 url: Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. page number: cat. no. 60 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: Portalis, Roger. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889 page number: url: Rosenberg, Pierre. Tout l'œuvre peint de Fragonard. Paris: Flammarion, 1989. page number: url: Portalis, Roger, and J. Rothschild. Honoré Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre. 1889. page number: p. 281 url: Alan Chong, letter to Colin B. Bailey, Feb. 3, 1994, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Joseph Baillio, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Feb. 18, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.49/1942.49_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.49/1942.49_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.49/1942.49_full.tif