In profile at right, a young woman with dark hair and pale skin, in a flowing white dress with a pink sash, leans in, pushing the cart forward to the left down a garden path. The blonde, curly haired child sits up on a pink satin cushion in a red carved wooden cart, smiling and holding a yellow cat close by. At left, dressed in a long sheer white gown over a pink dress, a woman with brown hair and pale skin, runs laughing, looking back as she pulls the front of the cart. Two small white dogs run along on either side of the cart.

The Beloved Child

Collection
Harvard Art Museums
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (, 1732 - 1806)&Marguerite Gérard (, 1761 - 1837)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
Accession Year
1961

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