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The Little Park

ca. 1761-63
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
The Little Park is one of Fragonard’s most famous and enigmatic subjects. He treated it six times—in the five works on view here and on a small canvas in the Wallace Collection, London. Although it does not seem to depict an actual site, it relates closely to a drawing he had made in the gardens of the Villa d’Este at Tivoli, outside Rome, especially in the forms of the paired trees that frame the distant vista and the balustrade just in front of them.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Little Park
  • Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1761-63
  • Medium: Red chalk
  • Dimensions: 14 × 18 1/4 in. (35.6 × 46.4 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Private collection
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints