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JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Watched by Bradamante, Atlante destroys his castle and takes flight (Orlando furioso, IV, 38-39)
black chalk, brown and gray wash, watermark coat-of-arms with a star surmounted by a crown
1534 x 912 in. (40 x 24.2 cm)
Provenance
see under lot 40.
Literature
E. Mongan, P. Hofer and J. Seznec, Fragonard. Drawings for Ariosto, London, 1945, p. 64, pl. 22.
M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard et le Roland Furieux, Paris, 2003, no. 32, p. 380, ill.
M.T. Caracciolo, ‘Lectures de l’Arioste au xviiie siècle: du livre illustré au cycle peint’ in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXXXVI, sixth period, CXXIII, no. 1502, March, 1994, p. 136, fig. 20.
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In chains, Bradamante watches as the magician Atlante destroys his castle with a stroke of the wand.

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