What Do the UMFA, the Met, and the Detroit Institute of Arts Have in Common? Jean-Honoré Fragonard
by umfablog
Guest blogger: Leslie Anderson, UMFA curator of European, American, and regional art Last November I noticed a connection between the UMFA’s Mademoiselle Marie-Madeleine Guimard by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) and works by the same artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the time, I was researching an unrelated project, a proposal for the conservation treatment of two oil paintings by French eighteenth-century artist Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780). The story of this discovery demonstrates a […]
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