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10 <> In the course of planning the Fragonard retrospective held at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1987 and at the MET in 1988, Pierre Rosenberg of the Louvre visited the MET's drawings Study Room and examined the BAKER Sultan with Jacob Bean , the first Curator of the Dpt. of drawings . Together the two curators concluded that the MET's drawing had to be a forgery of the type described by Gearldine Norman in 1978. Indeed Rosenberg supplied an important piece of evidnce illuminating the work of the forger; a photograph of a rare lithograph showing Fragonard's composition in reverse (Fig.3)

11 <> Geraldine Norman , a sale-room correspondent at the TIMES of LONDON, brought these discussions [Alexandre Ananoff Catalogue Raisonné 1961-1970/ Parisian Dealer Jean Cailleux Informative Letter to an American Curator] { ... a few too many drawings... discovered and come onto the market early 1960's to 1969...} out from behind closed doors with a lengthy investigative article that appeared on March 8 and 9 , 1978, in which she claimed that more than thirty wash drawings attr, to Frago were fakes. The majority had been published 1961 and 1970 in Ananoff's Catalogue Raisonné of fragonard's Drawings with provenances that were vague , unverifiable or falsified. Norman's article delivered sobering news to the many North American Museums and Collectors who had purchased drawings ascribed to Fragonard since the 1950's

13 <> THE SULTAN (Fig.1) It shows a turbaned man in what appears to be Turkish dress. [( cf. 'UN TURC ASSIS' cat. DENON Oeuvres Lithographiques Nr.239 Fragonard del.9 )] seated at a table upon which a large volume lies open. A collector's mark at the lower right indicates thatthe drawing had been in the collection of Baron Vivant Denon , the first director of the Musée du Louvre . Paris. The technique is one associated with the artist's second trip to Italy, in 1773 and 1774, and was described thus in the Bulletin text by Claus Virch, then assistent Curator of European paintings at the MET. ...'with a wide painterly range of tones from the most transparent to the deepest brown, and skilfull use of the white paper [Fragonard] creates an abundance of light' The Sultan was also included in a compendium titled , unabashedly GREAT DRAWINGS of ALL TIME, which appeared in four vols. in 1962

15 A.D. Monuments .... Posthum Publication 1816 ( 307 Lithographed Plates ) receuillies par le baron Vivant Denon (1747-1825) 'Although the lithographed Fragonard's Sultan drawing does not appear in the four volumes , It survives in afew loose examples , suggesting that at some point the intention was to include it. The lithograph need not have been seen in the Monuments des arts du dessin, however , for the nemes of the maker and the collector of the drawing to have been known, the letter' .....

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