Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Painting, Visual Artist
1732 – 1806
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Who was Jean-Honoré Fragonard?
Jean-Honoré Fragonard 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, 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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- Born
- Apr 5, 1732
Grasse - Also known as
- Jean-Honore Fragonard
- Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Parents
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- French Academy in Rome
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Lived in
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Grasse
- Died
- Aug 22, 1806
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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