Allegorical Figures, ca. 1770

  • Jean Simon Berthélemy, French, 1743-1811

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 12 1/8 × 10 inches (30.8 × 25.4 cm)
  • 15 3/4 × 13 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (40 × 34.3 × 6.7 cm)

Gift of Wildenstein and Company

30.347

collection of M. Fahnstock (New York, New York, USA)

(Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York, USA)

1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Fragonard. Exh. cat., Wildenstein Gallery. New York, 1926, no. 15. Walther, J. "Eighteenth Century French Paintings," Bulletin of the DIA 10 (1928-9): pp. 3-4. Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 75, (repr.) [as Jean Honoré Fragonard]. "Annual Report for the Year 1930," Bulletin of the DIA 12, no. 5 (1931): p. 47, (repr. as Fragonard). Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. 1944, p. 48, no. 75 [as J. H. Fragonard]. Wildenstein, G. The Paintings of Fragonard. London, 1960, no. 70, (fig. 49). Volle, N. Jean-Simon Berthelemy 1743-1811 Peintre d'Histoire. Paris, 1979, pp. 14, 87, no. 63, (fig. 44).

Jean Simon Berthélemy, Allegorical Figures, ca. 1770, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Wildenstein and Company, 30.347.