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The Dreamer
The Dreamer

The Dreamer

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806)
1770s
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink and brush with brown and gray wash on paper
DimensionsFramed: 52.1 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm (20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 2 in.)
Overall: 30.8 x 20.6cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/8in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2566
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceBy 1931, W.H. White, London; A. and R. Ball Works of Art, New York; May 9, 1945, sold by A. and R. Ball Works of Art to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York, Paris, Rhode Island; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
The Fireworks
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
about 1763-65
Dappled Draught Horse Being Shod
Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault
about 1823
Jupiter and Danaë
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
after 1770
A Vestal Virgin Entombed
Giovanni David
after 1775
Saint Eustace
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
about 1530
Landscape
Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)
17th century
Landscape with river and monastery
Roelant Roghman
17th century
The Trying Hour
John Gadsby Chapman
1844–46
The Holy Trinity and Four Angels
Federico Zuccaro
late 16th–early 17th century