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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(5th Apr, 1732 - 22nd Aug, 1806)
Apollon et Daphné
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Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
drapery
miniature (oeuvre)
putto
nude (female)
landscape background
Apollo
metamorphosis
Daphne (mythology)
mythological scene
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About the artwork
Title:
Apollon et Daphné
Periods:
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
18th century
19th century
XVIIIth century
XIXth century
Techniques:
vellum (paper)
peinture sur papier
Dimensions:
321 x 21
Inventory number:
RF4286-recto
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…
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