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The Souvenir Painting ID:: 29537
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Jean Honore Fragonard The Souvenir Oil on panel, 25 x 19 cm
Wallace Collection, London
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A Boy as Pierrot Painting ID:: 29538
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Jean Honore Fragonard A Boy as Pierrot 1776-80
Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
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Marie-Madeleine Guimard, Dancer Painting ID:: 29540
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Jean Honore Fragonard Marie-Madeleine Guimard, Dancer c. 1769
Oil on canvas, 81,5 x 65 cm
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The Fountain of Love Painting ID:: 29545
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Jean Honore Fragonard The Fountain of Love 1785
Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 cm
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Man Playing an Instrument Painting ID:: 29546
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Jean Honore Fragonard Man Playing an Instrument 1769
Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm
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Jean Honore Fragonard
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1732-1806
French
Jean Honore Fragonard Locations
French painter. He studied with François Boucher in Paris c. 1749. He subsequently won a Prix de Rome, and while in Italy (1756 ?C 61) he traveled extensively and executed many sketches of the countryside, especially the gardens at the Villa d Este at Tivoli, and developed a great admiration for the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1765 his large historical painting Coresus Sacrifices Himself to Save Callirhoë was purchased for Louis XV and won Fragonard election to the French Royal Academy. He soon abandoned this style to concentrate on landscapes in the manner of Jacob van Ruisdael, portraits, and the decorative, erotic outdoor party scenes for which he became famous (e.g., The Swing, c. 1766). The gentle hedonism of such party scenes epitomized the Rococo style. Although the greater part of his active life was passed during the Neoclassical period, he continued to paint in a Rococo idiom until shortly before the French Revolution, when he lost his patrons and livelihood.
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