The Water Jets (Les jets d'eau)

c. 1765–70

Medium	brush and brown ink and brown wash over pencil on laid paper
Dimensions	Overall: 10 7/16 x 15 1/8 in. (26.5 x 38.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1967
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Water Jets (Les jets d'eau), c. 1765–70, brush and brown ink and brown wash over pencil on laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1967

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Paris: Wildenstein.. Le dessin français dans les collections du XVIII siècle.. 1935.. New York: Wildenstein.. French 18th Century Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings from the David Weill Collection.. Nov.-Dec. 1938.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Williams, Eunice. Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 1978-Jan. 21, 1979; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Feb. 16-April 1, 1979; Frick Collection, New York, April 20-June 3, 1979. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art. 1978. Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Paignon-Dijonval; Morel de Vindé.. Le Cabinet de M. Paignon-Dijonval.. Paris: Impr. de Madame Huzard.. 1810.. Roger Portalis.. Fragonard, Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre.. Paris: M. M. George Chamerot.. 1889.. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt.. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle.. Paris: A. Quantin.. 1883.. Gabriel Henriot.. "La Collection David Weill.". Amour de l'art, 6.. (1952).. Leon Marotte and Charles Martine.. Honoré Fragonard (Dessins de maîtres français, 6).. Paris: Helleu et Sergent.. 1927.. Gabriel Henriot.. Collection David Weill, 3, Dessins.. Paris: Braun & Cie.. 1928.. Georges Grappe.. La vie et l'oeuvre de J.-H. Fragonard.. Paris: Les Editions Pittoresques.. 1929.. Florian Rodari.. Fragonard: L'instant désiré.. Paris: Ed. Herscher.. 1944.. Louis Reau.. Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre.. Brussels: Elsevier.. 1956.. Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1732-1806. 4 volumes, 1861-70. Paris: F. de Nobele. 1861. Edward Lucie-Smith.. Eroticism in Western Art. World of Art Series.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1972.. Tilly, Andrew. Erotic Drawings. Oxford: Phaidon Press. 1986. Hermann Bauer and Hans Sedlmayr.. Rokoko: Struktur und Wesen einer europäischen Epoche.. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag.. 1991.. Florian Rodari.. Fragonard: L'instant désiré.. Paris: Ed. Herscher.. 1944.. Pierre Rosenberg.. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres.. Princeton University Press.. 2000.. Lilley, Ed. "Lost Works of Art: The Problem and a Case Study". Art History.

Provenance

Varanchon de Saint-Geniès (sale 1777); Paignon-Dijonval (to Morel de Vindé); Morel de Vindé; Jacob de la Lottière (to Templier); Émile Templier (to Desclosières); Desclosières (to David Weill, 1913); David Weill (to Wildenstein); G. Wildenstein (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1941).