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Jean Honore Fragonard
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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Painting ID:: 29531
The Storm
c. 1759
Oil on canvas, 73 x 97 cm
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Painting ID:: 20738
The White Bull (mk05)
Canvas 28 1/2 x 35''(73 x 91 cm)Given in 1976 R.F
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Painting ID:: 20739
The Hight Priest Coresus Sacrifices Himself to Save Callirhoe (mk05)
Canvas,121 1/2 x 157 1/2''(309 x 400 cm)Intended as a tapestry design to be excuted at the Gobelins factory (not excuted)Salon of 1765;collection of Louis XV ,INV
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Painting ID:: 20740
The Bolt (mk05)
ca 1778
Canvas 28 1/2 x 36 1/2''(73 x 93 cm)Purchased in 1974 R.F
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Painting ID:: 21896
Blind Man's Buff (mk08)
c.1760
Oil on canvas,
114x90cm,
Toledo,Toledo Museum of Art
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Jean Honore Fragonard
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.
. Related Artists to Jean Honore Fragonard: | MANUEL, Niklaus | EWORTH, Hans | WIERINGEN, Cornelis Claesz van | Neufchatel, Nicolas de | REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua |
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