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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
Quick Facts
- Died:
- August 22, 1806, Paris (aged 74)
- Awards And Honors:
- Prix de Rome
- Notable Works:
- “Progress of Love”
- “The Swing”
- Movement / Style:
- Neoclassical art
- Rococo
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. The family moved to Paris about 1738, and in 1747 the boy was apprenticed to a lawyer, who, noticing his appetite for drawing, suggested that he be taught painting. François Boucher was prevailed upon to accept him as a pupil (c. 1748), and in 1752, Fragonard’s elementary training completed, Boucher recommended that he compete for a Prix de Rome scholarship, which ...(100 of 864 words)