Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009532A Boy in a Red-Lined Cloak
Also known as: Portrait of a Boy; Young Boy Dressed in a Red-Lined Cloak (The Artist's Son?)
About the Artwork
In the course of his long career, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings. In this particular painting, the seventeenth-century costume, the brown palette, and his technique suggest that Fragonard is reflecting upon the work of Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt rather than his teacher François Boucher. While there is considerable evidence that the sitter is Alexander Evariste Fragonard, the artist's son, this identity has never been confirmed.
Provenance
By 1860-1880: Hippolyte Walferdin [1795-1880], Paris, France April 12-14, 1880: (Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, Walferdin sale, April 12-14, 1880, no. 4) 1880-: Comte Cahen d’Anvers, probably Edouard [1832-1894] Nicolas Ambatielos [1885-1956], London, England 1905-1920: (Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY) -1942: Grace Rainey Rogers [1867-1943], New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1942-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Exhibition history
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806)
- Date
- 1780s
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- Framed: 36 x 27 x 3.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 20.8 x 16 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
- Accession no.
- 1942.49
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