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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe fʁaɡɔnaʁ]; 5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (born April 5, 1732, Grasse, France—died August 22, 1806, Paris) was a French Rococo painter whose most familiar works, such as The Swing (1767), are characterized by delicate hedonism. Fragonard was the son of a haberdasher’s assistant.
Summary of Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Fragonard's work is at once emblematic of the 18 th century and singular, elevating popular genre scenes to meditations on French society through careful use of symbols and lavish brushwork.
Embodying the freedom and curiosity of the French Enlightenment, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) developed an exuberant and fluid manner as a painter, draftsman, and printmaker.
Best known for his flourishly hedonistic scenes, Jean Honoré Fragonard was a French Rococo painter and print maker, who was one of the most prolific painters of the Ancién Regime.
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré. Cite. PDF. Archived Version (s) Biography. Works of Art. Artist Bibliography. Biography. Fragonard was one of the most prolific of the eighteenth-century painters and draftsmen. Born in 1732 in Grasse in southern France, he moved with his family at an early age to Paris.
'Jean-Honoré Fragonard's highly personal, powerful style emerged after periods of study with both François Boucher and Jean-Siméon Chardin, and over five years at the Académie de France...
The Swing, oil painting created about 1767 by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, It is Fragonard’s most celebrated painting, as well as one of the best-known images in 18th-century art. It illustrates the elegance and playfulness of the Rococo style.
1732 - 1806. Fragonard was born at Grasse, in the south of France. He trained in Paris with Chardin and then Boucher. In 1752 he won the Prix de Rome, and then entered the royal school of Elèves Protégés, directed by Carle van Loo. He was at the French Academy in Rome from 1756 to 1761.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, (born April 5, 1732, Grasse, Fr.—died Aug. 22, 1806, Paris), French painter. He studied with François Boucher in Paris c. 1749.
