The Goddess Minerva

ca. 1772

Jean Honoré Fragonard French, 1732-1806

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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Title The Goddess Minerva

Artwork Date ca. 1772

Artist Jean Honoré Fragonard

Life Dates 1732-1806

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed (oval): 27 5/8 × 21 7/8 inches (70.2 × 55.6 cm) Framed: 39 × 29 × 4 inches (99.1 × 73.7 × 10.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

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. 53.354

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Provenance

possibly Duc de Liancourt

(Lucien Guiraud, Paris, France)

Wildenstein (Paris, France)

Monsieur Destrem (20 rue Roquepine, Paris, France)

January 5, 1923, acquired by (René Gimpel, Paris, France)

1925, purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

French Art of the 18th Century. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art. Cincinnati and Baltimore, 1924, no. 14 and no. 7.

The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French, Spanish and English Fifteenth to Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, cat. 50 (ill.). [lent by Edgar B. Whitcomb.]

Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, cat. 20. [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb.]

Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1927, p. 41, cat. 76. [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb.]

Heil, W. "The Edgar B. Whitcomb Collection in Detroit." Art in America16 (1928): p. 49.

Heil, W. "MS catalogue." 1931, p. 43.

Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture Given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, p. 79 (ill.) p. 78.

Réau, L. Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Brussels, 1956, p. 148.

Wildenstein, G. The Paintings of Fragonard. London, 1960, p. 287, no. 407 (fig. 167).

Wildenstein, D. and G. Mandel. L'opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972, no. 432.

Cuzin, J.-P. Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Life and Work. New York, 1988, p. 304, no. 230.

Rosenberg, P. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, no. 245. [as Allégorie de la Force.]

Three Masters of French Rococo: Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret. Exh. cat., Odakyu Grand Gallery, Daimaru Museum, Hakodate Museum of Art, Sogo Museum of Art. Tokyo, Umeda-Osaka, Hokkaido, and Yokohama, 1990, no. 41, p. 172 [English version], p. 150 [Japanese version], color pls. p. 41.

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