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Item No: 25302
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Fragonard, Jean-Honore (1732-1806)
Jean-Honore Fragonard was born in Provence in the town of Grasse. At the age of eighteen, he left for Paris, studied with Boucher and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1752. In 1759 Fragonard and his contemporary, Hubert Robert, were invited to accompany the Abbe de Saint-Non on a trip to southern Italy and Sicily. The two young men, each strongly influencing the other, sketched and painted archaeological scenes, landscapes, and religious and genre works, all on a small scale. Upon his return to France in 1761, Fragonard was admitted to the Academy.
In 1765, he gave up historical and religious paintings to work in the style for which he is best known, painting landscapes and interiors peopled with young lovers, cupids, and Venuses. Among his most famous patrons were Madame de Pompadour, and Madame du Barry, for whom he painted the great panels of Progress in Love, now in the Frick Museum in New York. In 1790, Fragonard returned to Grasse to flee the horrors of the Revolution.
The artist returned to Paris, was made a member of the Jury of Arts and given a post in the newly created Louvre Museum. He had, however, outlived his period and the sober thought of the revolutionary era, indicated in the painting of David, could not include Fragonard. He was ousted from his Louvre apartment in 1806 and deprived of his pension, and died in poverty during the same year.
One of the most brilliantly original French painters of the late eighteenth century, Fragonard painted with a spontaneous and fluid technique that recalls Rubens. His imagination, wit, and refinement combined to create canvases that represent the best aspects of the period of Louis XVI. |
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