Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les joies de la maternité (The Joys of Motherhood) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 57 x 38-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les débuts du modèle (The New model) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 50 x 63 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Baron Portalis, one of the artist’s greatest connoisseurs, underlined the artist’s brilliant execution: ‘Imagine everything of the fairest, pinkest, and lightest…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les marionnettes (The puppets) 1775–1778 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 89.8 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi
Founded: 2017 Address: Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Website: https://www.louvreabudhabi.ae/ Collection: • Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516): Madonna col Bambino (1480-85) • Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806): Les marionnettes (1775-78) • Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903): Les Enfants luttant (1888) • Manet, Édouard (1832-1883): Le…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Colin-Maillard (Blind Man’s Buff) c.1750–1752 Oil on canvas, 116.8 x 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In the 18th century the game of blind man’s buff (or bluff) became the symbolic arena for courtship, chance, and the…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Deux prophètes: Daniel et Habacuc (Two prophets: Daniel and Habakkuk) 2nd half of the 18th century Black pencil on paper, 155 x 188 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid During his stay in Naples in 1761, Fragonard copied a…
(c.124-c.170) Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis Works: • Amor ja Psyke (Finnish) • Apologia sive pro se de magia (Latin) • De deo Socratis (Latin) • De mundo (Latin) • De Platone et eius dogmate, Liber I (Latin) • De Platone et…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Psyché montrant à ses soeurs les présents de l’amour (Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid) 1753 Oil on canvas, 168.3 × 192.4 cm National Gallery, London This painting illustrates an episode from the classical story of Cupid…
(1721–1764) Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson Marquise de Pompadour Duchesse de Menars Madame de Pompadour in Art: Boucher, François (1703-1770) Pompadour à sa toilette 1750 Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Boucher, François (1703-1770) Portrait de Madame de Pompadour 1756 Alte Pinakothek, Munich Boucher, François (1703-1770)…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Portrait d’un homme en costume (Portrait of a Man in Costume) c.1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 80.3 × 64.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean-Honoré Fragonard is perhaps best known for his light-hearted, amorous subjects, which seem to embody…