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This artwork, Alcina flees after being worsted in naval combat by Jean Honoré Fragonard, is currently for sale at Agnew's.
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TITLE:
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Alcina flees after being worsted in naval combat
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CATEGORY:
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Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)
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MATERIALS:
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Pen and ink, chalk and wash
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SIZE:
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h: 39.1 x w: 27 cm / h: 15.4 x w: 10.6 in
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PRICE*:
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PROVENANCE:
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Hippolyte Walferdin, who probably purchased the complete set of Fragonard-Ariosto drawings direct from the Fragonard family; Walferdin sale, Paris, 12-16 April, 1880, no. 228 “136 compositions Magnfique série de dessins originaux à la pierre noire et lavis de bistre pour l’illustration de Roland furieux”; acquired at the sale by Louis Roederer, Rheims, by descent to his nephew Léon Olry-Roederer by whom sold through Agnew's to Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 1922; An American Private Collection.
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LITERATURE:
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Fragonard Drawings for Ariosto, with essays by E. Mongan, P. Hofer, J. Seznec, 1945, repr. plate no. 60; M. Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard et le Roland Furieux, 2003, no. 87, repr.
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