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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 The Lover Crowned oil painting

Painting ID::  31804

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

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Love Letters oil painting

Painting ID::  31805

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Love Letters
mk76 Painted in 1771-73 Oil on canvas
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Reverie oil painting

Painting ID::  31806

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

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Love Triumphant oil painting

Painting ID::  31807

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Love Triumphant
mk76 Painted in 1771-73 and 1790-91
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Love the avenger oil painting

Painting ID::  31808

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Love the avenger
mk76
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Jester oil painting

Painting ID::  31809

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Jester
mk76
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Pursuing a dove oil painting

Painting ID::  31810

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Pursuing a dove
mk76
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Sentinel oil painting

Painting ID::  31811

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Sentinel
mk76
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Recreation by our Gallery oil painting

Painting ID::  32587

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Recreation by our Gallery oil painting

Painting ID::  32598

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79 1770
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Park Landscape oil painting

Painting ID::  38742

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Park Landscape
mk141 c.1760s Red chalk on paper 33.9x46.8cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Blindbock oil painting

Painting ID::  53835

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Blindbock
mk234 probably c. 1765 216x198cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard the bolt oil painting

Painting ID::  56141

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
the bolt
mk247 c.1777,oil on canvas,28.5x36.5 in,73x93 cm,louvre,paris,france
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Captured Kiss, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg oil painting

Painting ID::  58842

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Captured Kiss, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg
The Captured Kiss, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing oil painting

Painting ID::  58844

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing
The Swing (French: L'escarpolette), 1767, Wallace Collection, London
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard A Young Girl Reading oil painting

Painting ID::  58845

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
A Young Girl Reading
A Young Girl Reading, c. 1776, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Lover Crowned oil painting

Painting ID::  60421

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

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Blind man bluff game oil painting

Painting ID::  66373

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Blind man bluff game
1751 Oil on canvas 117 ?? 91 cm (46.06 ?? 35.83 in)
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard The Progress of Love: The Pursuit oil painting

Painting ID::  66374

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Progress of Love: The Pursuit
1773 Oil on canvas 318 x 216 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Jean-Honore Fragonard Education is Everything oil painting

Painting ID::  66521

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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Education is Everything
from 1775(1775) until 1780 Oil on canvas 55.5 ?? 66 cm (21.85 ?? 25.98 in)
   
   
     

 

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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;