Circle of Jean Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)Venus and Cupidoil on canvas98.9x 74.2cm(38 15/16x 29 3/16in).For further information on this lot please visit theArtist or Maker: Jean Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)Provenance: ProvenanceLucien Millevoye (1850-1918), gifted by him toMaud Gonne (1866-1953), and thence by descent through the family to the present ownerLucien Millevoye was a poet and prominent member of the Boulangist party in France; he had a relation in the 1880s with Maud Gonne, a well-known campaigner for the Irish independence movement and women's causes and a muse of the poet s. She and Millevoye had two children together; the politician Sean MacBride (1904-1988) was her son from a later marriage.