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...lovers may appreciate the perky papillon, painted by Fragonard, Boucher, Velasquez and Titian. Its name derives from its butterfly-like ears. Madame de Pompadour always carried one, Marie Antoinette took hers along to prison, and Edith Wharton brought papillons to the U.S., where currently there are 158 registered...
...waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard...
...vagaries of taste can be cruel, they can also be marvelously kind. When the delicate Girl Reading, by Jean Honore Fragonard, appeared on the velvet block, the Parke-Bernet audience suddenly burst into applause. After some whispered consultation with Director John Walker of the National Gallery in Washington. D.C., Collector Chester Dale bid it in for the gallery for $875,000. This was more than twice the price of any Fragonard before, and, for that matter, more than any other picture ever auctioned except Aristotle...
Against an airy backdrop of helical columns, twinkling lights, and vegetation that might have been sketched by Fragonard, the repertory group succeeds amply where most productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream turn up shy, playing it with such insouciant broadness that the steady laughter of the audience all but rubs out the lion's roar from the zoo next door. Performances are uniformly first-rate, from Albert Quinton's dolphin-eyed, full-fathomed Bottom to giant Negro Actor James Earl Jones's Oberon, who as the fairy king somehow suggests Paul Robeson on point. Joel...
Valued conservatively at $3,000,000, the collection ranged from a delicate Madonna and Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...