Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Cudgelled and Contented Cuckold (Le Cocu battu et content), About 1780. Brush and brown wash over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper affixed to buff wove paper; ruled border in pen and brown ink; 8 × 5 ½ in. (20.3 × 14 cm). The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, 2019.576

image height: 8 in, 20.3200 cm; image width: 5 1/2 in, 13.9700 cm; frame height: 14.875 in, 37.7825 cm; frame width: 11.875 in, 30.1625 cm; frame depth: 1 in, 2.5400 cm; height: 8 in, 20.3200 cm; width: 5.6875 in, 14.4463 cm

European and American Art Before 1900

European Painting and Sculpture before 1900

Possibly Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (1734–1794), Paris; his sale, Paris, May 16, 1783, lot 55; from which acquired by (?) Alexandre Joseph Paillet (1743–1814), Paris; his sale, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, November 21, 1785, lot 107; from which acquired by (?) Villeneuve; (?) Duc de Rohan-Chabot; his sale, Paris, March 21, 1799; Baron des Jamonières (greatgrandson of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, according to Roger Portalis, Honoré Fragonard: Sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1889, p. 209); his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 24, 1883, lot 13; from which acquired by A. Piat; his estate sale, Hôtel des CommissairesPriseurs, Paris, March 22–23, 1897, lot 50; from which acquired by Jacques Doucet (1853–1929), Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 5, 1912, lot 23; from which acquired by Stettiner; Madame Maurice Ephrussi, née Charlotte Béatrice de Rothschild (1884–1934), Paris and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat; her sale, Paris, July 3, 1920, lot 29; from which acquired by Marcel Razsovich, Saint-Germain-en-Laye; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 30, 1964, lot 3; from which acquired by Mlle Aymonier; private collection; sale, Trianon Palace, Versailles, May 16, 1971, lot 25; with Wildenstein, New York; from which acquired by Esmond Bradley Martin [1941–2018], 2007; gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 2019.

• Possibly "Dessins de l'école française"—École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, February 1884, no. 279 (part of a lot of six drawings belonging to M. Piat)
• "Dessins de Fragonard"—Jacques Seligmann & fils, Paris, 05/09-05/30/1931, no. 112
• "French Drawings, XVI-XIX Century"—Wildenstein, London, 06/20–07/14/1979 (no catalogue)
• "Fragonard"—The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 03/18–05/11/1980
• Municipal Museum, Kyoto, 05/24–06/29/1980, (cat. by D. Sutton), no. 161. Illustrated
• "Passport to Paris"—Denver Art Museum, 10/27/2013–02/09/2014