''The Raised Chemise'' or ''The Shift Withdrawn'' (''La Chemise enlevée '') is a small c.1770 oil-on-canvas painting by

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732 (birth/baptism certificate) – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ar ...

, now in the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

in Paris, to which it was left by Dr

Louis La Caze Louis La Caze (6 May 1798 – 28 September 1869) was a successful French physician and collector of paintings whose bequest of 583 paintings to the Musée du Louvre was one of the largest the museum has ever received. Among the paintings, the most ...

in 1869. Its earlier but similarly small pendant ''Fire to the Gunpowder'' (''Le Feu aux poudres'') was in

Carlos de Beistegui Carlos de Beistegui e Yturbe (31 January 1895 – 17 January 1970),''England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995'' also known as Charlie de Beistegui, was an eccentric French-born Mex ...

's collection and is now also in the Louvre. Eva-Gesine Baur, «El rococó y el neoclasicismo» en ''Los maestros de la pintura occidental'', Taschen, 2005, pág. 360, . It was exhibited in Paris in 1860, helping the

frères Goncourt The Goncourt brothers (, , ) were Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), both French naturalism writers who, as collaborative sibling authors, were inseparable in life. Background Edmond and Jules were born to m ...

rescue Fragonard from the obscurity into which he had fallen after the

French Revolution The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considere ...

, albeit only as a frivolous painter – his skill as a history painter was not recognised until the 20th century. P. F. R. Carrassat, ''Maestros de la pintura'', Spes Editorial, s.l., 2005 , p. 163.

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