Invocation to Love

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Invocation to Love

Jean-Honoré FragonardLinkedCulture matchlcp-3d28f78fe6aa

Date
c. 1781
Medium
Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
123431

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Fragonard used gardens as the setting for love and courtship in some of his most important works. One such scene, this drawing depicts a woman pleading for help from a statue of Eros, the god of love. He wears a blindfold, suggesting an uncertain outcome for the woman, as does a Cupid who indifferently leans on an orb nearby. Like other artists in 18th-century France, Fragonard was deeply influenced by historic imagery of the Garden of Love—a pastoral and idyllic contained landscape. He revisited the specific image seen here multiple times, in two oil paintings (Musée du Louvre and private collection, New York) and another drawing (Princeton University Art Museum). This drawing contains squaring—a grid underlying the image—suggesting it's a smaller drawn replica of a related oil painting.

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Credit line
Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
Provenance
?-by 1781: François Renaud [active late 18th-early 19th century; Lugt 1042], Paris | ?-by 1781: Possibly M. Sireul | 1781: (Chez M. Boileau, Paris, Tableaux et dessins précieux qui composent le cabinet de M. de Sireul, December 3, 1781, no. 241, possibly sold to François-Martial Marcille) | ?-1857: Possibly François-Martial Marcille [1790-1856], Paris | 1857: (Paris, M. Marcille sale, March 4-7, 1857, under no. 416, sold to Pierre Désiré Eugène Franc Lamy) | 1857-about 1922: Pierre Désiré Eugène Franc Lamy [1855-1919; Lugt 949b], Paris | about 1922: (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, sold to Grace Rainey Rogers) | 1922-1943: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY | 1943: (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Notable...Paintings and Drawings...Property of the Estate of the Late Grace Rainey Rogers, November 18-20, 1943, no. 46, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1943-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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