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Title
The painting "The Fountain of Love" by Fragonard, depicting a man and a woman attending cherubs
Creator
Fragonard
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the painting "The Fountain of Love" by Fragonard, depicting a man and a woman attending cherubs, [s.d.]. The woman is pictured in the foreground at right, swathed in a lightly-colored diaphanous material, her breasts bare. Behind her, a man is visible from the torso up, his head apparently decorated with a garland. To the left, a group of cherubs emerges from darkened clouds.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m18385
USC-1-1-1-14104 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-8789
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18385
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-8789.jpg
Subject
Art--Love
Art
Source
8789 [Accession number]
CHS-8789 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 1787 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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