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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(5th Apr, 1732 - 22nd Aug, 1806)
Mercure et Argus
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Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Stéphane Maréchalle
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
shepherd
Mercury (mythologie)
cow
Argus (mythology)
Io (mythology)
sheep
sleep
mythological scene
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About the artwork
Title:
Mercure et Argus
Periods:
18th century
modern age
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
590 x 730
Inventory number:
RF1981-17
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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