Landscape with Passing Shower

between 1765 and 1775

Jean Honoré Fragonard French, 1732-1806

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Landscape with Passing Shower

Artwork Date between 1765 and 1775

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: 15 × 18 inches (38.1 × 45.7 cm) Framed: 21 11/16 × 24 5/8 × 2 5/8 inches (55.1 × 62.5 × 6.7 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from 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. 48.215

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Provenance

May 19-20, 1876, Huot-Fragonard sale (Paris, France) lot 55 [for 410 francs]

Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville [d. 1876] (Paris, France)

January 30-31, 1885, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction de Beurnonville, lot 138 [for 695 francs]

by 1928, (Gallery Cailleux, Paris, France)

David David-Weill (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)

by 1937, (Wildenstein and Co., Inc., New York, New York, USA)

until 1948, (Arnold Seligmann-Helft Corp., New York, New York, USA)

1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Pannier, H. "Catalogue des oeuvres peintes de Jean-Honoré Fragonard qui ont passé en vente publique depuis 1770 jusqu'en 1905." in P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806. Paris, 1906 p. 134. [as Les bergers.]

Henriot, G. Collection David-Weill, Peintures. Paris, vol. 1, 1926, pp. 115-117 (ill.).

David-Weill Pictures. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York, 1937, no. 15.

Landscape Painting from Patinir to Hubert Robert. Exh. cat., Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, 1941, p. 26, no. 57.

Wilhelm, J. "Fragonard as a Painter of Realistic Landscapes." The Art Quarterly 11 (1948): p. 299 (ill.) (fig. 3); p. 304, note 4.

Grigaut, P.L. "A Realistic Landscape by Fragonard." DIA Bulletin 28, no. 1 (1948): 14-17, p. 16 (ill.).

Eighteenth Century Art of France and England. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, 1950, p. 11, no. 24.

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, pp. 76-77 (ill.).

Réau, L. Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Brussels, 1956, p. 186 [as Paysage au taureau blanc]; p. 84 [as La Clairière.].

Wildenstein, G. The Paintings of Fragonard. London, 1960, p. 236, no. 176; p. 238 (ill.) (fig. 94).

Wilhelm. "Fragonard." mimeographed, 1960, p. 181.

Parker, Clifford Stetson. Lectures culturelles françaises. New York, 1966, p. 365.

Wildenstein, D. and G. Mandel. L'opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972, p. 94, no. 189.

Three Masters of Landscape: Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, 1981, no. 22, p. 34 (ill.).

Russell, J. "Three French Landscapists with a Common Vision." New York Times, Nov 29, 1981, n.p.

Zafran, E.M. The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art. Atlanta, 1983, p. 138, no. 66, p. 130 (ill.).

Rosenberg, P. "Fragonard and the Dutch Landscape." Fragonard. Exh. cat., Grand Palais and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Paris and New York, p. 185 (fig. 5).

Cuzin, J.-P. Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Life and Work. New York, 1988, pp. 196-197 (fig. 240); p. 287, no. 141 [as Landscape with a horseman, The Glade, or The Shepherds.]

Rosenberg, P. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard. Paris, 1989, p. 87, no. 141. [as Paysage à l'averse, avec Bergers et Cavalières, ca.1761-1765 or 1766-1768.]

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Jean Honoré Fragonard, Landscape with Passing Shower, between 1765 and 1775, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 48.215.