Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a master of late Rococo, captivated 18th-century France with his exuberant scenes of love and veiled eroticism, like the iconic 'The Swing'.

ABOUT

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe fʁaɡɔnaʁ]; 5 April 1732 – 22 August 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 Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Le Temps Orageux 1745 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Good Mother 1750 · Museum of Fine Arts Boston The See-Saw 1750 · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Young Girl with a Marmot 1750 · Fogg Museum Education is Everything 1750 · São Paulo Museum of Art The Musical Contest 1754 · Wallace Collection

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

François BoucherRococo Jean-Baptiste-Siméon ChardinRococo/Realism Giovanni Battista TiepoloRococo

Influenced

Berthe MorisotImpressionism Pierre-Auguste RenoirImpressionism Marguerite GérardRococo/Genre Painting Alexandre-Évariste FragonardRomanticism