Deux femmes sur un nuage

between 1732 and 1806

Jean Honoré Fragonard, Artist Pietro Liberi, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Deux femmes sur un nuage

Artwork Date between 1732 and 1806

Makers Jean Honoré Fragonard (Artist) French, 1732-1806 Pietro Liberi (Artist) Italian, 1614-1687

Medium Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 6 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (15.9 × 11.4 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S499.50

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Cav. libris palais Ressonico a Venise

Marks Stamp, verso: Scripps 1894 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink] Second stamp, verso: J. Peoli. (Lugt 2020)

Provenance

May 1894, J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Jean Honoré Fragonard; after Pietro Liberi, Deux femmes sur un nuage, between 1732 and 1806, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S499.50.