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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

  • News Items : The Lyon Museum Finally Acquires Two Landscapes by Fragonard 03/09/2013

    2/9/13 - Acquisitions - Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts - The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, which had launched a fundraising appeal in December 2012 in order to acquire two paintings by Fragonard, The Rock and The Watering Hole, owned by a private (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : Lyon Wishes to Acquire Two Fragonard Works, Listed as National Treasures 10/12/2012

    The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon is closing its fundraising drive for the purchase of an Ingres painting on 15 December, but it is continuing its ambitious acquisitions policy as announced yesterday in the Journal Officiel with the launch of a (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Fragonard : "La Guimard" Is Madame de Grave and "Diderot" Is Meu(s)nier 04/12/2012

    The Fragonard portrait which has, almost, always been known as Portrait of Diderot is in fact not a likeness of the philosopher as proven by the drawing recently auctioned off and published for the first time on 17 July on The Art Tribune by (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Publications : Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure. Painting the Imagination 20/07/2012

    Fragonard’s work can often be compared to a gauntlet thrown down to the historians of art to test their sagacity. Rare are the sheets of drawings that do not raise questions or doubts regarding their attribution, date and origin or even (...)

    Lire la suite par Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey

  • News Items : Two New Acquisitions for the Getty Museum 09/02/2012

    The Getty has just announced the acquisition of two very different works. One is a 16th century German panel, the other an 18th century French drawing. However, both are of the finest quality. The painting, representing the Trinity surrounded by (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Intimate Scenes. French Genre Painting between the Revolution and the Restoration 27/11/2011

    The Musée des Augustins has chosen to approach the chaotic period between the French Revolution and the Restoration by way of genre painting. All of the canvases, some of which are unpublished, come exclusively from French collections, either (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : The Musée Fragonard opens in Grasse 11/04/2011

    Particularly fascinated by the 18th century, Jean-François Costa, the grandson of the founder of Fragonard Perfumes in Grasse today managed by his daughters, has assembled a remarkable collection of paintings dominated by the figures of (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : L’Antiquité rêvée. Innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle 18/01/2011

    The theme of the influence of Antiquity on the art of the second half of the 18th century, what is commonly called Neoclassicism, is treated often. This does not however detract from the fact that the exhibition at the Louvre is a resounding (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Exhibitions : Marguerite Gérard. Artiste en 1789, dans l’atelier de Fragonard 22/10/2009

    Her name always linked to her master Fragonard – and the current exhibition is no exception to the rule – Marguerite Gérard always had a difficult time existing in her own right in the eyes of later generations. In the last few years, thanks to (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Recent acquisitions by the Metropolitan Museum 10/03/2008

    Many of the acquisitions made by the Metropolitan Museum in recent months have not been mentioned here and it is now high time that we take a look at the latest additions

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner