Provenance
Study After Annibale Carracci: Venus and Cupid (from the Galleria Estense); Study After Agostino Carracci: Pluto and Cerberus (from Galleria Estense), 1760-61
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Norton Simon Foundation
F.1970.03.056a-b.D
© The Norton Simon Foundation
Abbe Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non.
Comtesse de Bearn-Behague, Paris (began acquiring the drawings in 1894, sold 1927 to;
Hon. Irwin Laughlin, Meridian House, Washington, D.C., by descent to his daughter;
Mrs. Hubert Chanler, Geneso, New York (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 10 June 1959, lot 17, to);
[Maggs Brothers, Ltd., London].
Private Collection.
[Fl. Tulkens, Brussels, Bookseller, sold 1970 to];
The Norton Simon Foundation.