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The Progress of Love: The Pursuit

1771–72

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The story

In 1915 the dealer Joseph Duveen bought the whole fourteen-canvas cycle for $1,250,000 and sold it to Henry Clay Frick at cost. Before that it hung in J. P. Morgan's London house, which Bernard Berenson said looked 'like a pawnbroker's shop for Croesuses'.

Source, The Frick

Object details

Title: The Progress of Love: The Pursuit
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Date: 1771–72
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: The Frick Collection, New York
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0159
Original image: 2029 × 3000 px
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License evidence: See the license

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Progress of Love: The Pursuit. 1771–72. The Frick Collection, New York. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0159/