THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE, Jean-Honoré Fragonard

GRASSE 1732 - 1806 PARIS

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

oil on canvas
47 x 37.5 cm.; 18 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.

Provenance:
Monsieur Bérend, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Chevalier, 2 December 1889, lot 4, for 4050 francs;

There acquired by Marcel Bernstein (1840–1896), Paris;

Thence by descent to Henry Bernstein (1876–1953), Paris;

Bartholoni Collection (according to the 1959 sale catalogue below);

With Wildenstein, New York;

Irwin B. Laughlin (1871–1941), Washington, D.C.;

Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs Hubert Chanler (1914–1999), New York;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1959, lot 22, for £3500;

With Wildenstein, New York;

From whom acquired by the late collector in 1988.