A Boy in a Red-Lined Cloak (1780s): Art, History and Details

A Boy in a Red-Lined Cloak (1780s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In the course of his long career, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings. In this particular painting, the seventeenth-century costume, the brown palette, and his technique suggest that Fragonard is reflecting upon the work of Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt rather than his teacher François Boucher. While there is considerable evidence that the sitter is Alexander Evariste Fragonard, the artist's son, this identity has never been confirmed.

Object facts

• Title: A Boy in a Red-Lined Cloak
• Date: 1780s
• Creator attribution: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806)
• Culture: France
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 36 x 27 x 3.5 cm (14 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.); Unframed: 20.8 x 16 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
• Collection: P - French 18th Century
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1942.49

Collection credit

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey

Further reading listed by the museum

• Burty, Philippe. Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, et exposés au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs. Paris: [Impr. de J. Claye], 1860.
• W. Burger (Thore), "Exposition de tableaux de l'ecole francaise ancienne tires de collections d'amateurs," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, VII (1860).
• Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux et dessins de l'école française. 1880.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.