The Cascade

The Cascade

Painting in frame: overall

 Painting in frame: corner

Painting in frame: angled corner

Profile drawing of frame. W 3 1/4 in. 8.2 cm (T. Newbery)

The Cascade

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

In 1756, having won the Prix de Rome, Fragonard departed for four years at the French academy in that city. Of his route from Paris we know nothing, but on the return journey he traveled by way of Florence to Venice, west to Marseilles, and north through Lyons. He visited the principal cities of Italy again in 1774, as well as Vienna and Frankfurt. As this small picture demonstrates, he was very much influenced by the monuments, both ancient and modern, and the parks and gardens, of the Italian capital. The subject may be imaginary.

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. 98, pl. 77); his daughter, Princess Maria Grigorievna Scherbatova, and her children, Prince Vladimir Alexeyevich 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. 51; 1943, no. 50)

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