"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water."
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

Honoré Daumier 🇨🇵 (1808-1879)
"Don Quixote in the Mountains"
c. 1850

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ‘The Swing' (1767-1768), One of the masterpieces of the Rococo era.

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Maria Caterina Brignole, Princess consort of Monaco by marriage to Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, legally separated from her husband in 1770: he died in 1795, and in 1798 she married Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.

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[#8. Le gilet👕]

Cette semaine, à L’École des Lettres, Honoré de Balzac a perdu son gilet !

Strip en entier par ici 👉 https://t.co/2gfeWvCrZg

J'en profite pour remercier celles et ceux qui suivent la série. Elle cartonne sur Instagram et ça nous fait très (très) plaisir ! 🔥

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Seul costume ...approprié a ce personnage, Honoré Daumier, https://t.co/CUmJ4ete8Z (Palette: 🖌🎨

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'Don Quixote and Sancho Panza'~ Honoré Victorin Daumier, (1855)

This luminous painting is one of Daumier’s most highly regarded works. It is a preparatory work for a more finished picture showing Don Quixote charging a flock of sheep.

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Honoré Daumier, La Caricature, Pl. 454, Athenians Beware of Phillip! (Demosthenes to the Athenians,( La Caricature, Pl. 454, Atheniens prenex garda a Phillippe! [Demosthenes aux Atheniens]) https://t.co/Ue9z0NGXYX

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‘The Swing’ ; 1768
by Jean-Honoré Fragonard …. has been restored
[ a vertical strip of old varnish in the centre depicts the change in colours after cleanup] ; more here ~>https://t.co/Iv6v0vVHuu

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French writer Honoré de Balzac, 1895

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フランスの雑誌に『#世界でいちばん遠い恋』を載せて下さったそうです✨ありがとうございます𓅼ˎˊ˗
フランスは文化をとても大切に扱う印象があるので…光栄です。嬉しい!✨

Merci de m'avoir fait découvrir le magazine. Je suis très honoré !✨ https://t.co/OxEqKt7l11

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The Happy Accidents of the Swing (1768)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's works -> https://t.co/oJBXPq28nE

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Reclining Female Nude with a Dog
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Drawings
French, 18th-19th century

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'True genius' of Fragonard revealed after restoration of The Swing

Rococo painting to go back on show at Wallace Collection with greater depth and detail

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing [1767] https://t.co/s1QPZzcnVt

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Blank page; verso: Head of a Man, c. 1758

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Gardens and Terraces of the Villa d'Este at the Foot of the Fountain of the Organ (Les Cascatelles); verso: Study for the Figure of Callirhoë, 20th century

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767

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