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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Invocation to Love
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Invocation to Love, c. 1781. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00000303

    Invocation to Love

    by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    Also known as: The Vow to Love

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    About the Artwork

    Fragonard used gardens as the setting for love and courtship in some of his most important works. One such scene, this drawing depicts a woman pleading for help from a statue of Eros, the god of love. He wears a blindfold, suggesting an uncertain outcome for the woman, as does a Cupid who indifferently leans on an orb nearby. Like other artists in 18th-century France, Fragonard was deeply influenced by historic imagery of the Garden of Love—a pastoral and idyllic contained landscape. He revisited the specific image seen here multiple times, in two oil paintings (Musée du Louvre and private collection, New York) and another drawing (Princeton University Art Museum).

    Inscriptions

    Secondary support, lower right, in graphite: 62 [L?]3; verso of secondary support, center left, in graphite: Salon

    Provenance

    ?-by 1781: François Renaud [active late 18th-early 19th century; Lugt 1042], Paris ?-by 1781: Possibly M. Sireul 1781: (Chez M. Boileau, Paris, Tableaux et dessins précieux qui composent le cabinet de M. de Sireul, December 3, 1781, no. 241, possibly sold to François-Martial Marcille) ?-1857: Possibly François-Martial Marcille [1790-1856], Paris 1857: (Paris, M. Marcille sale, March 4-7, 1857, under no. 416, sold to Pierre Désiré Eugène Franc Lamy) 1857-about 1922: Pierre Désiré Eugène Franc Lamy [1855-1919; Lugt 949b], Paris about 1922: (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, sold to Grace Rainey Rogers) 1922-1943: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY 1943: (Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Notable...Paintings and Drawings...Property of the Estate of the Late Grace Rainey Rogers, November 18-20, 1943, no. 46, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1943-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

    Exhibition history

    The Eighteenth Century: Art of France and England. Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (organizer) (April 27-May 31, 1950). Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (July 31-September 28, 1958); Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (October 24, 1958-January 2, 1959); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 3-March 15, 1959). Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). Aspects of Drawing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 10-April 2, 1961). French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 5-April 18, 1961). European Watercolors Through the 18th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 14-March 22, 1964). Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (September 2-October 15, 1972); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (September 2-October 15, 1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (November 3-December 17, 1972); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (April 4-May 13, 1973). Rubenism. David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI (January 30-February 23, 1975). Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (November 16, 1978-January 21, 1979); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (February 15-April 1, 1979); Frick Collection, New York, NY (April 20-June 3, 1979). フラゴナール展 (Fragonard Exhibition). National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (March 18-May 11, 1980); Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (May 24-June 29, 1980). 18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981). French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). Fragonard. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (organizer) (September 24, 1987-January 4, 1988); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (February 2-May 8, 1988). Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989). Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawing. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (July 22-September 19, 1993); Philadelphia Museum of Art (October 30, 1993-January 2, 1994); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (February 6-April 3, 1994). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Pictures of Love. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (October 28, 2007-January 21, 2008). Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806)
    Date
    c. 1781
    Medium
    Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 33.5 x 41.6 cm (13 3/16 x 16 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 37.6 x 47.8 cm (14 13/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
    Accession no.
    1943.657

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