Painting #052 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard 

(French Rococo, 1732-1806)

The Swing / L'Escarpolette  

- Fragonard

- oil on canvas (81 × 64 cm) 1767

- Wallace Collection (London)

The old husband pulls, and the young wife flirts, under the eyes of Cupid. 

     "This style of 'frivolous' painting soon became the target of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who demanded a more serious art which would show the nobility of man."

The Swing

The Stolen Kiss
- Fragonard
- oil on canvas (45 x 55 cm) 1786
- Hermitage (St. Petersburg)

The Bolt
- Fragonard
- oil on canvas (73 × 93 cm) 1777
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

The Progress of Love: The Meeting
- Fragonard
 - oil on canvas (318 x 244 cm) 1771-1773
- The Frick Collection (NYC)

The Bathers
- Fragonard
- oil on canvas (64 x 80 cm) 1765
- Louvre (Paris)

Blindman's Buff
- Jean Honoré Fragonard
- oil on canvas  (216 x 198 cm)  c.1775/80
National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

Aristocrat adults playing a children's game, whilst the poormen's Revolution 1789 was around the corner.

The Grape Gatherer 
- Fragonard
- oil on canvas (150 x 86 cm) 1754
- Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit)

A Young Girl Reading
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- oil on canvas  (82 x 65 cm)  c.1770/c.1771
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

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Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe
- Fragonard
- oil on canvas (309 × 400 cm) 1765
- Musée du Louvre (Paris)

Source: Wikipedia