April 5, 1732: French Rococo-style painter/printmaker Jean Honoré Fragonard is born.

Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" was exhibited at the Salon in Paris where it was purchased for King Louis XV.

🎨 Jean Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765

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jimin: rococo (late 17th and 18th century france)

characterized by pleasure, playfulness, romantic scenes, pastel palettes, sensuality

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Born in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)

Portrait of Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1725-91), ca. 1769

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Born in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)

Portrait of dancer Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816), ca. 1770

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (April 5, 1732- August 22, 1806, French)
The Love Letter, 1780. Stolen Kiss, 1788. La Bergère, 1752.

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“April Painters” French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (born Apr 4, 1732) “The Shepherdess” (c.1750-1752)

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One of the most remarkable portraits in . Lady Elizabeth Cromwell by Kneller (1702) has the feel of something produced at the end of the century rather than the start. Great rococo frame though.

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✨ROCOCO (XVIIIe)✨
- dérivé des rocailles, l'assemblage de coquillages/coraux : abondance d'éléments déco
- art du luxe, de la jouissance, de la mythologie (thématique récurrente des "Fêtes Galantes", de la vie mondaine)
- lignes douces, asymétrie, formes rondes
- esprit boudoir

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Queen of France, Reading the Bible (1703-68), 1748

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Self-portrait with his family, 1730-62

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Marie Françoise de La Cropte de St. Abre, Marquise d'Argence, 1744

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Madame Marsollier and her Daughter, 1749

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Bonne Marie Félicité de Sérent, 1754

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Marie-Geneviève Boudrey as a muse, 1752

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Madame Bouret as Diana, 1745

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Marquise de Pleumartin, née Anne Le Laÿ de Villemaré, 1738

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Alexander Kurakin, 18th Century

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Born in 1685: French painter (1685-1766)

Portrait of Francis Greville, Baron Brooke, later 1st Earl of Warwick (1719-73), 1741

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