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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (5th Apr, 1732 - 22nd Aug, 1806)

Figure de fantaisie : portrait de l'abbé de Saint-Non (1727-1791)

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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

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Credit:

Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / image RMN-GP

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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / image RMN-GP

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About the artwork

Title:

Figure de fantaisie : portrait de l'abbé de Saint-Non (1727-1791)

Periods:

contemporary period from 1789 until 1914

Techniques:

Dimensions:

800 x 650

Inventory number:

MI1061

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Also known as:

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Born:

5th Apr, 1732

Dead:

22nd Aug, 1806

Country:

France

See more about this author on Wikipedia:

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒã onoʀe fʀaɡonɑʀ]; 5 April 1732 in Grasse – 22 August 1806 in Paris) 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 (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of… Read more...