Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
57 x 38-1/2 in. (canvas) approximately 66-7/8 x 49-5/8 x 5 in. (framed)
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Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Herman C. Krannert
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color Palette
Provenance
Comte de Malleray, Versailles;{1} Jules S. Bache (1861-1944), New York;{2} Baron de Rothschild, Paris; (Wildenstein & Co., New York);{3} Josiah K. Lilly Jr.[(1893-1966], Indianapolis, Indiana; purchased by Herman C. Krannert [1887-1972], in 1970;{4} by inheritance to his wife, Ellnora Decker Krannert [1890-1974], in 1972; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields in 1973. ------- {1} See Georges Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, Complete Edition, trans. by C.W. Chilton and A.L. Kitson, London 1960, catalogue no. 30. {2} See footnote 1 above. {3} See footnote 1 above. {4} See letter from Mrs. Herman C. Krannert to Carl J. Weinhardt of the IMA, dated 8 November 1973 in IMA Historical File (73.103.2).
Gallery Labels
Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart at the Comic Opera in Paris and in paintings and stage sets by François Boucher, with whom Fragonard apprenticed prior to his 1752 Rome Prize win. Here, the young mother, with her pretty dress and powdered hair, owes more to staged pastorals than reality. Paintings this size functioned as interior decorations for wealthy patrons. Pretty country scenes were especially popular since rural subjects suited country châteaux equally as well as city dwellings, where they might recall fashionable pastimes, like the theater. Fragonard painted unusually dynamic decorative works and here vitality exudes from the abundant flora, rosy infant, and robust, pushy toddler.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
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