drawing
- Museum number
- 1936,0509.53
- Description
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'Judith with the head of Holofernes' after Paolo Veronese's painting formerly in the Palazzo Brignole (now the Palazzo Rosso), Genoa, one of 71 drawings made for the Abbé de Saint-Non in 1761 on a journey from Naples to France. 1761
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 190 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For commentary on this group of black chalk Fragonard drawing see 1936,0509.1.
Lit.: E. Senior, 'Drawings made in Italy by Fragonard', "Old Master Drawings", XI, 1936, pp.5-9; A. Ananoff, 'L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné', Paris, 1968, III, no. 1800, p. 176; P. Rosenberg and B. Brejon De Lavergnée, 'Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761', Rome, 1986, no. 349, p. 420
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980 Mar-May, Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 'Fragonard', no. 111
1980 May-Jun, Kyoto Museum, 'Fragonard', no. 111
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- Inherited by Mrs Whatley from the Meyrick family.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,0509.53
