The Visit to the Nursery explained

The Visit to the Nursery
Artist:Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Year:c. 1775
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:73
Width Metric:92.1
Museum:National Gallery of Art
City: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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: WGA entry.
  2. Web site: Catalogue entry. 22 June 1775 .
  3. 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.