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JEAN BAPTISTE MARÉCHAL | A) ELEGANT COMPANY NEAR A ROTUNDA, IN THE PARC SAINT-JAMES, NEUILLY B) ELEGANT COMPANY ON A BRIDGE, IN THE PARC SAINT-JAMES, NEUILLY
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JEAN BAPTISTE MARÉCHAL
Active 1779 - 1824
A) ELEGANT COMPANY NEAR A ROTUNDA, IN THE PARC SAINT-JAMES, NEUILLY
B) ELEGANT COMPANY ON A BRIDGE, IN THE PARC SAINT-JAMES, NEUILLY
Both point of the brush and brown wash over black chalk;
both bear inscriptions in brown ink, verso: Ce dessin a été donné par Fragonard / a M.r Diderot.
Each: 107 by 208 mm; 4¼ by 8⅛ in
Each sheet: 4¼ by 8⅛ in; 107 by 208 mm
Each framed: 11½by 15½in; 292 by 394 mm
(2)
Possibly Denis Diderot;
Comte de La Béraudière,
his sale, Paris, 21 May 1885, lot 157 (as Fragonard, Parc de Neuilly);
Edmond Borthon, Dijon;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 March 1982, lot 76 (as Jean-Honore Fragonard)
Baron R. Portalis, L’œuvre de Fragonard, Paris 1889, p. 308
Previously on loan to Harvard University, The Fogg Art Museum, inv. nos. 8300.1 and 8300.2
The Parc St. James, located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was designed in the late 1770s by the celebrated Neoclassical architect Francois-Joseph Bélanger, for the Treasurer General of the Navy, Claude Baudard de Saint-James. These two drawings, previously considered as the work of Fragonard, can instead be convincingly given to his follower, Jean Baptiste Maréchal, an artist who specialised in landscape drawings of the gardens and architectural monuments in and around Paris.