Girl with a Marmot
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Girl with a Marmot, 1780, oil on canvas, Museum Purchase: Purchased from the Bowles Estate, with funds provided by the Ella M. Hirsch, Helen Thurston Ayer, Caroline Ladd Pratt, and Museum Auction Funds, public domain, 54.21
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- Title
Girl with a Marmot
- Artist
- Date
1780
- Medium
oil on canvas
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
15 1/2 in x 11 7/8 in
- Collection Area
European Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
painting
- Culture
French
French
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Purchased from the Bowles Estate, with funds provided by the Ella M. Hirsch, Helen Thurston Ayer, Caroline Ladd Pratt, and Museum Auction Funds
- Accession Number
54.21
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Fragonard's work embodied the delight of the Rococo style. The clothing worn by this girl and by the boy in a pendant painting identify them as natives of the Savoy region in northern Italy. Savoyards were familiar figures throughout France as itinerant entertainers in the eighteenth century. The girl offers a peek at the marmot she keeps in a box. Captured high in the Alps, the marmot would have seemed exotic as well as cute to city dwellers in most parts of France.
