Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 229

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD
L'Armoire.

Etching, 1778. 395x495 mm; 15 1/2x19 1/2 inches, small margins. The second edition, published by Naudet. A very good, well-inked impression with strong contrasts.

According to Carlson, Fragonard's "largest and most complex etching" (Carlson/Ittmann, Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, Minneapolis, 1984, p. 227). Wildenstein 23.