The Raised Chemise


The Raised Chemise or The Shift Withdrawn is a small c.1770 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, now in the Louvre in Paris, to which it was left by Dr Louis [La Caze] in 1869. Its earlier but similarly small pendant Fire to the Gunpowder was in Carlos de Beistegui's collection and is now also in the Louvre.
It was exhibited in Paris in 1860, helping the frères Goncourt rescue Fragonard from the obscurity into which he had fallen after the French Revolution, albeit only as a frivolous painter – his skill as a history painter was not recognised until the 20th century.