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Jean-Honore Fragonard
French Rococo Era Painter, 1732-1806 was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Regime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. He was born at Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, the son of François Fragonard, a glover, and Françoise Petit. He was articled to a Paris notary when his father's circumstances became strained through unsuccessful speculations, but showed such talent and inclination for art that he was taken at the age of eighteen to François Boucher, who, recognizing the youth's rare gifts but disinclined to waste his time with one so inexperienced, sent him to Chardin's atelier. Fragonard studied for six months under the great luminist, then returned more fully equipped to Boucher, whose style he soon acquired so completely that the master entrusted him with the execution of replicas of his paintings. Though not yet a pupil of the Academy, Fragonard gained the Prix de Rome in 1752 with a painting of "Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Golden Calf", but before proceeding to Rome he continued to study for three years under Charles-Andre van Loo. In the year preceding his departure he painted the "Christ washing the Feet of the Apostles" now at Grasse cathedral. On September 17, 1756, he took up his abode at the French Academy in Rome, then presided over by Charles-Joseph Natoire. While at Rome, Fragonard contracted a friendship with a fellow painter, Hubert Robert. In 1760, they toured Italy together, executing numerous sketches of local scenery. It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art. He also learned to admire the masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools (Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael), imitating their loose and vigorous brushstrokes. Added to this influence was the deep impression made upon his mind by the florid sumptuousness of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works he had an opportunity to study in Venice before he returned to Paris in 1761. In 1765 his "Coresus et Callirhoe" secured his admission to the Academy. It was made the subject of a pompous (though not wholly serious) eulogy by Diderot, and was bought by the king, who had it reproduced at the Gobelins factory. Hitherto Fragonard had hesitated between religious, classic and other subjects; but now the demand of the wealthy art patrons of Louis XV's pleasure-loving and licentious court turned him definitely towards those scenes of love and voluptuousness with which his name will ever be associated, and which are only made acceptable by the tender beauty of his color and the virtuosity of his facile brushwork;

 

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Jean-Honore Fragonard Stolen Kiss Detail oil painting

Painting ID::  10304

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Stolen Kiss Detail
oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Bathers oil painting

Painting ID::  10305

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Bathers
1765, Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing oil painting

Painting ID::  10306

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing
1766 Wallace collection in London
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The See-Saw oil painting

Painting ID::  10307

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The See-Saw
canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Portrait of a Singer oil painting

Painting ID::  10308

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Portrait of a Singer
Holding a Sheet of Music, 1769, oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Inspiration oil painting

Painting ID::  10309

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Inspiration
1769 canvas, Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Love Letter oil painting

Painting ID::  10310

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Love Letter
1770oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Meeting oil painting

Painting ID::  10311

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Meeting
771-73, Frick Collection NY
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Lover Crowned oil painting

Painting ID::  10312

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Lover Crowned
1771Frick Collection at New York
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading oil painting

Painting ID::  10313

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Young Girl Reading
1776, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art at Washington
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Education is Everything oil painting

Painting ID::  10314

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Education is Everything
1780oil on canvas Museum of Art, Sao Paolo
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Stolen Kiss oil painting

Painting ID::  10315

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Stolen Kiss
late 1780s, oil on canvas, The Hermitage at St. Petersburg
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Adoration of the Shepherds oil painting

Painting ID::  29530

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Adoration of the Shepherds
c. 1775 Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing (nn03) oil painting

Painting ID::  23291

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing (nn03)
c 1768 Oil on canvas 81 x 64.5 cm 31 7/8 x 25 3/8 in Wallace Collection London
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Musical Contest oil painting

Painting ID::  26682

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Musical Contest
mk53 c.1751 oil on canvas 62x74cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing oil painting

Painting ID::  26683

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing
mk53 1767 oil on canvas 81x64.2cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Bathers oil painting

Painting ID::  30161

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Bathers
mk64 before 1756 Oil on canvas 64x80cm Paris,Musee du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Stolen Kiss oil painting

Painting ID::  30646

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Stolen Kiss
mk68 Oil on canvas Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1787-1789 France
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Progress of love oil painting

Painting ID::  31802

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Progress of love
mk76 Painted in 1771-73 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Meeting oil painting

Painting ID::  31803

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Meeting
mk76 Painted in 1771-73 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
French Rococo Era Painter, 1732-1806 was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Regime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. He was born at Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, the son of François Fragonard, a glover, and Françoise Petit. He was articled to a Paris notary when his father's circumstances became strained through unsuccessful speculations, but showed such talent and inclination for art that he was taken at the age of eighteen to François Boucher, who, recognizing the youth's rare gifts but disinclined to waste his time with one so inexperienced, sent him to Chardin's atelier. Fragonard studied for six months under the great luminist, then returned more fully equipped to Boucher, whose style he soon acquired so completely that the master entrusted him with the execution of replicas of his paintings. Though not yet a pupil of the Academy, Fragonard gained the Prix de Rome in 1752 with a painting of "Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Golden Calf", but before proceeding to Rome he continued to study for three years under Charles-Andre van Loo. In the year preceding his departure he painted the "Christ washing the Feet of the Apostles" now at Grasse cathedral. On September 17, 1756, he took up his abode at the French Academy in Rome, then presided over by Charles-Joseph Natoire. While at Rome, Fragonard contracted a friendship with a fellow painter, Hubert Robert. In 1760, they toured Italy together, executing numerous sketches of local scenery. It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art. He also learned to admire the masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools (Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael), imitating their loose and vigorous brushstrokes. Added to this influence was the deep impression made upon his mind by the florid sumptuousness of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works he had an opportunity to study in Venice before he returned to Paris in 1761. In 1765 his "Coresus et Callirhoe" secured his admission to the Academy. It was made the subject of a pompous (though not wholly serious) eulogy by Diderot, and was bought by the king, who had it reproduced at the Gobelins factory. Hitherto Fragonard had hesitated between religious, classic and other subjects; but now the demand of the wealthy art patrons of Louis XV's pleasure-loving and licentious court turned him definitely towards those scenes of love and voluptuousness with which his name will ever be associated, and which are only made acceptable by the tender beauty of his color and the virtuosity of his facile brushwork;