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After Huquier the following provenance is for this drawing and/or the other version of this composition now in a private Parisian collection: Gabriel Huquier Paris (his mark L.1285 lower right); possibly Louis Varanchan de Saint-Geniès Paris (his sale Paris Paillet—Chariot 29-31 December 1777 lot 63); possibly Peter Adolf Hall Paris (his collection inventory 10 May 1778—see Villot 1867 p. 77); possibly Erik Magnus Baron Staël von Holstein Paris and Poligny (1); possibly Emmanuel de Ghendt Paris (his sale Paris Basan—Guilleaumon 15-22 November 1779 lot 261); possibly Chevalier Charles-François Mesnard de la Claye called Mesnard de Clesne Paris (his sale Paris Paillet—Boileau 4 December 1786 lot 114); possibly Étienne-Laurent-Joseph-Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe or Fons Colombe Aix-en-Provence (his sale Paris Lebrun—Le Jeune 13 December 1790 lot 116); possibly Hubert Robert Paris (his sale Paris Paillet—Olivier 5 April 1809 part of lot 165); possibly Destaisnières Paris? (his sale Paris Laneuville—Haize 16 November 1806 lot 29); possibly Vivant-Jean (Bon) Brunet-Denon Paris and Châtenoy-en-Bresse (his sale Paris Defer and Roussel—Bonnefons 2 February 1846 lot 245); possibly Baron A. Saint Paris? (his sale Paris Defer—Bonnefons his sale Paris 4-11 or 30 May 1846 lot 15); Émile Norblin Paris (his sale Paris 16-17 March 1860 lot 56); possibly Hippolyte Walferdin Paris (his sale Paris Drouot—Escribe 12-16 April 1880 lot 213); Etienne-François Haro Paris (2); Galerie Wildenstein (3); David David-Weill Paris; Galerie Wildenstein; Charles E. Dunlap New York and Newport; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Gift of Charles E. Dunlap inv. no. 1954.106
(1) See New York 1959 cat. no. 46 pp. 50-51.
(2) Acquired at the Walferdin sale according to the Drouot—Escribe sale catalogue.
(3) Traditionally Camille Groult is cited as the owner of the drawing before Galerie Wildenstein procures it for the first time. However based on caption information in a contemporary publication by Georges Grappe the Groult drawing was the second known version of the Fragonard composition (see Grappe H. Fragonard: peinture de l'amour au XVIIIe siècle vol. 2 1913 p. 74 repr.).
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Charles E. Dunlap