A Shaded Avenue

A Shaded Avenue

Painting in frame: overall

Painting in frame: corner

Painting in frame: angled corner

A Shaded Avenue

Artist:Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
Date:ca. 1775
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (29.2 x 24.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Jules Bache Collection, 1949

While Fragonard was primarily a figure painter, he was also a gifted landscapist, influenced by Dutch views of the previous century, as well as by scenes in France and Italy. He made several drawings that are variations of this subject and larger that the present panel (one sheet is in the Petit Palais, Paris). He often showed light entering a relatively dark space through an arched opening.

Provenance
Count Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, St. Petersburg and Maryno (by 1800–d. 1811; cat., 1800, nos. 115–16); his cousin, Count Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov, St. Petersburg (1811–d. 1857); his grandson, Count Grigory Sergeyevich Stroganov, Palazzo Stroganov, Rome (1857–d. 1910; cat., 1912, vol. II, p. 99, pl. 78); his daughter, Princess Maria Grigorievna Scherbatova, and her children, Prince Vladimir Alekseyevich and Princess Alexandra Alexeyevna, Palazzo Stroganov (1910–d. 1920); Prince Vladimir's widow, Princess Elena Petrovna Scherbatova, later Wolkonsky, and her children, Princess Olga Vladimirovna and Princess Maria Vladimirovna, Palazzo Stroganov (1920–23; sold through Prince Alexandre Wolkonsky, Paris, to Wildenstein and Duveen); [Wildenstein and Duveen, Paris and New York, 1923–26; sold by Wildenstein for $12,500 to Bache]; Jules S. Bache, New York (1926–d. 1944; his estate, 1944–49; cats., 1929, unnumbered; 1937, no. 52; 1943, no. 51)

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