Jean honore fragonard

The Frick Collection, temporarily relocated to the Whitney’s old building on Madison Avenue, reviewed by Jerry Saltz.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and print maker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of pre-revolutionary France, 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.

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HIGH RESOLUTION. When I was growing up this was one of my favorite pictures in my mother's book "100 Great Masterpieces." Now a print hangs beside 'Lovers in the Park' in our home. (see adjacent image). Jean-Honoré Fragonard [French Rococo Era Painter, 1732-1806] Oil on canvas 1767 The Wallace Collection, London: wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=Ext... ______ Originally my scan. Replaced with higher resolution image. My digital restoration.

Rococo was a style in fine art and design, developed in Paris during the the first half of the 18th century. It began as a reaction against the Baroque grandeur of Louis XIV's court at the Palace of Versailles. In some ways, it was in contradiction with the Baroque (by using pastel colours, light-hearted subjects in painting and sculpture, and asymmetry in design), but it was also a continuation (by using motifs and rules taken from Greco-Roman antiquity in exterior architecture, many…

Gallery-grade prints on high-quality paper, this is the real deal Lightly textured 100% cotton paper Custom sizes, based on artwork dimensions. Check size chart if self-framing Dimensions include a 1 - 2 inch (2.5 - 5.0cm) white border to assist in framing Shipped in protective packaging

The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, late 1780s

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