Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and Sofrosina

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Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and Sofrosina

Jean-Honore FragonardLinkedCulture matchlcp-33805e8f7da5

Date
early 1780s
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
202341

This is one of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s 179 drawings illustrating scenes from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando), first published in 1532. The English knight Astolfo, in armor at left in the ship’s bow, has left the island of the enchantress Alcina. In this scene, he sails home escorted by Andronica and Sofrosina, who represent the virtues of Fortitude and Temperance. Sofrosina waves her wand, directing the wind, while the angelic putti at the ship’s stern advance it with their breath. Fragonard’s line—as frenzied as Orlando—vividly conveys the turbulent elements of wind and sea as the rocking ship sails swiftly from right to left and out of the picture.

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Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
François Hippolyte Walferdin (1795–1880); sold, Paris, Apr. 12–16, 1880, lot 228. Louis Roederer (1845–1880), Rheims; by descent to his nephew Léon Olry-Roederer (1869–1932); sold by Agnew's, London, to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876–1952), Philadelphia, 1922. Private collection, U.S. Sold by Agnew's, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 15, 2006 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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