Leading Fragonard specialist Jean-Pierre Cuzin contests the attribution to the artist of fourteen drawings bought by the Louvre.
François de Bourbon, Comte d'Enghien, attributed by the Louvre to Fragonard, but considered by Jean-Pierre Cuzin a pale copy of his original, described as white, gray and black pastel on blue paper, 29.2 x 23.2 cm (11.5 x 9.1 in), detail, 1776-1779, according to the date proposed by the Louvre.
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In La Revue de l'art , Jean-Pierre Cuzin, a leading specialist in Jean-Honoré Fragonard , published his opinion on fourteen drawings whose acquisition by the Louvre for €520,000 has caused a few ripples . The former head of the Louvre's Painting Department indicates that these were portraits linked with the illustrations in L'Histoire de la Maison de Bourbon , published by Désormeaux in four volumes between 1772 and 1788. He responds to Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey's attribution to Fragonard printed in the same review in October 2019, which…
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