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Look at the flash of red lining at his shoulder against the gray-brown cloak, then at the soft light on his cheek and white collar.
Fragonard painted more than 550 pictures, and in the costume, brown tones and handling of this small panel the Cleveland Museum of Art sees him looking back to Rubens and Rembrandt rather than to his teacher Boucher. Much evidence points to the boy being his son, Alexandre-Évariste, though this has never been confirmed. The panel belonged to Hippolyte Walferdin, who collected about eighty paintings and more than seven hundred drawings by Fragonard.
oil on wood · Framed: 36 x 27 x 3.5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Rococo
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- Museum title
- A Boy in a Red-Lined Cloak
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.