"The drawings of mythological and biblical subjects / are original compositions by Fragonard made / during his Italian period after he had won / the "Prix de Rome". Fragonard's early drawings are / as his biographers have noted exceedingly rare. This / is the greatest collection of them that ever turned / up. Here we see the young Fragonard in the period of / his classical training; yet immediately apparent are / the genius of his draughtsmanship, the facility in composition / and often the very charm of the Fragonard of later years. / These drawings should be published as a most important / contribution to the record of the French art of the 18th century / George S. Hellman."