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🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard - La lettera d'amore (anni '70 del XVIII sec.).
Olio su tela: 83,2 # 67 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York

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1732 : Naissance de Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Il est un des principaux peintres classiques français du XVIIIe siècle. Il se spécialise assez rapidement dans le genre libertin et les scènes galantes.
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1806 : Décès de Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Il est l'un des principaux peintres français du XVIIIe s. Peintre d'histoires, de genre et de paysages, il se spécialise assez rapidement dans le genre libertin et les scènes galantes.

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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 https://t.co/4ItaJ5bQ0o

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Blank page; verso: Head of a Man, c. 1758 https://t.co/cpGqoz1FZt

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Iconic French artist died  1806.⁠

This evocative work is part of a group of allegorical depictions of love painted by Fragonard in the 1780s, and portrays love as a natural force and uncontrollable passion, stronger than the people affected by it.

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, born in 1732, was a & printmaker whose works were full of hedonistic & intimate themes. He produced over 550 paintings during his career.

📷 Credit: , "The Swing" by 1767.

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painted c.1775-80 by iconic French artist depicts a young girl carving an initial into the bark of a tree.

Only 25cm tall, the scale and careful technique show Fragonard echoing the contemporary taste for Dutch cabinet paintings.

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