id: 74614 accession number: 2019.254 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.254 updated: 2022-03-23 09:00:07.280000 François I Brandishing a Sword, c. 1815-30. Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (French, 1781-1850). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with graphite underdrawing and white and yellow gouache heightening on wove paper; sheet: 16.9 x 12.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2019.254 title: François I Brandishing a Sword title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1815-30 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1835 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with graphite underdrawing and white and yellow gouache heightening on wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard (French, 1781-1850) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 16.9 x 12.2 cm (6 5/8 x 4 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: on verso at left margin, in pencil: no 36 / Fragonard fils / 200F translation: remark: inscription: at upper right, in pencil: 82/24 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Carl Robert Rudolph [c. 1884-1974], London, United Kingdom date: footnotes: citations: (Jan Milner, New York, NY) date: 1979 footnotes: citations: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH date: 1979-2008 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 2, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard was the son of the famous painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, but developed a very different artistic style than his father. digital description: Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard developed a dramatic, narrative style of drawing that was well suited for illustration, and this sheet may have been one such design. Like many of his contemporaries, Fragonard was interested in modern history, focusing on important figures of the recent past. Here, he likely depicted the French king François I (1494–1547), a frequent subject of his work. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.254/2019.254_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.254/2019.254_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.254/2019.254_full.tif