The 50 plates / Plate 50 of 50
Plate 50 of 50
Landscape with a Dilapidated Cottage
Landschaft mit verfallener Hütte
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Not yet located
The drawing
A rustic landscape dominated by a weathered wooden cottage with a sagging roof, damaged doorway, and vegetation growing over its walls. Discarded barrels, broken fencing, scattered timbers, and other objects occupy the foreground. A large tree partially obscures the building at right, while an open landscape extends into the distance at left. Dense, energetic strokes contrast with the lightly rendered sky and distant foliage, emphasizing the textures of the decaying structure and its surroundings.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Title as printed
- Landschaft mit verfallener Hütte
- Title in English
- Landscape with a Dilapidated Cottage
- Medium and size
- Black chalk, stumped, 23 × 36.5 cm
- Inscription
- Unsigned
- Collection in 1922
- Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena (1837 cat. no. 39)
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard, as attributed by Becker. The subject and lively handling are consistent with Fragonard's interest in rustic landscapes, but the attribution of this exact drawing has not been independently verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 50.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.