| The Visit to the Nursery | |
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| Artist | Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
| Year | c. 1775 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 cm × 92.1 cm (29 in × 36.3 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
The Visit to the Nursery is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, created c. 1775, now held in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which it entered in 1946 as part of the Samuel H. Kress collection.[1][2] It was previously identified with a work auctioned in a 1780 sale of Fragonard's major client Jean François Leroy de Senneville (1715 – 1784), a fermier général, and then re-auctioned four years later, but a work more closely matching that work's description was rediscovered around 2009 in a collection in Estonia.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "WGA entry".
- ^ "Catalogue entry". 22 June 1775.
- ^ Philip Conisbee et al., French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue (Washington, DC, 2009), 182–187.
