Made by Jean-Honoré Fragonard / A Gathering at Woods' Edge / ca. 1760-1780

Made by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
A Gathering at Woods' Edge
ca. 1760-1780
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Creator Name: Fragonard, Jean Honoré
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: French, 1732-1806
Creator Name-CRT: Made by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Title: A Gathering at Woods' Edge
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1760
Creation End Date: 1780
Creation Date: ca. 1760-1780
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Red chalk
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 19 3/8 in. (37.5 x 49.2 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 1995.101
Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

Unlike the majority of Fragonard's red chalk landscapes, made during a summer at Tivoli in 1760, this drawing is a work of the artist's maturity, probably dating to just before his second trip to Italy in 1773-74. Dense deciduous trees recall the forests around Paris rather than the Roman campagna. The unhesitating, even virtuoso, handling suggests it is an independent work, probably created in the studio from a related plein-air study now in a private collection in Paris.

A stand of mature trees, bursting with profuse sunlit foliage, guards the shady entrance to the woods. In a characteristic manipulation of scale, Fragonard presents small groupings of elegant figures, half lost in shadow, as restrained echoes of the vigor and fecundity of the overgrown landscape. The dramatic naturalism associated with the Dutch landscapists, especially Jacob van Ruisdael, is here merged with a vision of nature as a welcoming milieu for aristocratic dalliance, a legacy of Watteau's fêtes galantes.

AMICA ID: MMA_.1995.101
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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