Fragonard Jean Honoré oil paintings artist - French painting

Jean-Honore Fragonard
French Rococo painter, draftsman & landscapist
born 5 April 1732 - died 1806

Student of: Francois Boucher (1703-1770) in circa 1749, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) in 1738, Carle van Loo (1705-1765), Charles Joseph Natoire (1700-1777).
Father of: Alexandre Evariste Fragonard (1780-1850).
Husband of: Marie-Anne Fragonard (1745-1823).
Grandfather of: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) - Fragonard Jean Honoré oil paintings artist - French painting

Member of: Fragonard family.
Winner of: Grand Prix de Rome (from 1752).

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806). French painter whose scenes of frivolity and gallantry are among the most complete embodiments of the Rococo spirit. Jean Honore Fragonard was a pupil of Chardin for a short while and also of Boucher, before winning the Prix de Rome in 1752. From 1756 to 1761 Jean Honore Fragonard was in Italy, where Jean Honore Fragonard eschewed the work of the approved masters of the High Renaissance, but formed a particular admiration for Tiepolo.
He travelled and drew landscapes with Hubert Robert and responded with especial sensitivity to the gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, memories of which occur in paintings throughout his career. In 1765 Jean Honore Fragonard became a member of the Academy with his historical picture in the Grand Manner Coroesus Sacrificing himself to Save Callirhoe (Louvre, Paris). Jean Honore Fragonard soon abandoned this style, however, for the erotic canvases by which Jean Honore Fragonard is chiefly known (The Swing, Wallace Collection, London, c. 1766). After his marriage in 1769 Jean Honore Fragonard also painted children and family scenes. Jean Honore Fragonard stopped exhibiting at the Salon in 1767 and almost all his work was done for private patrons. Among them was Mme du Barry, Louis XV's most beautiful mistress, for whom Jean Honore Fragonard painted the works that are often regarded as his masterpieces -- the four canvases representing The Progress of Love (Frick Collection, New York, 1771-73). These, however, were returned by Mme du Barry and it seems that taste was already turning against Fragonard's lighthearted style. Jean Honore Fragonard tried unsuccessfully to adapt himself to the new Neoclassical vogue, but in spite of the admiration and support of David Jean Honore Fragonard was ruined by the Revolution and died in poverty. - Fragonard Jean Honoré oil paintings artist - French painting

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