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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 on canvas,
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Bathers 1765, Louvre
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing 1766
Wallace collection
in London
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The See-Saw canvas
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Jean-Honore Fragonard Portrait of a Singer Holding a Sheet
of Music, 1769,
oil on canvas
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Jean-Honore Fragonard Inspiration 1769
canvas, Louvre
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Love Letter 1770oil on canvas
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Meeting 771-73, Frick
Collection NY
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Lover Crowned 1771Frick Collection
at New York
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Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading 1776, oil on canvas,
National Gallery of
Art at Washington
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Jean-Honore Fragonard Education is Everything 1780oil on canvas
Museum of Art,
Sao Paolo
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Stolen Kiss late 1780s,
oil on canvas,
The Hermitage
at St. Petersburg
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Jean-Honore Fragonard Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1775
Oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm
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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
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Musical Contest mk53
c.1751
oil on canvas
62x74cm
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing mk53
1767
oil on canvas
81x64.2cm
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Bathers mk64
before 1756
Oil on canvas
64x80cm
Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Stolen Kiss mk68
Oil on canvas
Saint Petersburg,
State Hermitage Museum,
1787-1789
France
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Progress of love mk76
Painted in 1771-73
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Honore Fragonard The Meeting mk76
Painted in 1771-73
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
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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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