What is Jean-Honoré Fragonard?
[[File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Self-portrait in a Renaissance costume.jpeg|thumb|250px|Fragonard's self-portrait]] '''Jean-Honoré Fragonard''' (5 April 1732 in [[Grasse]] – 22 August 1806 in [[Paris]]) was a [[French people|French]] [[artist]]. He is remembered as one of the most important French [[painter]]s of the [[rococo]] style. He was a pupil of [[François Boucher]], and developed Boucher's style further. At first he did historical paintings, but soon gave up on these. He then painted things that were light-hearted, and slightly erotic. His works include ''The Swing'', ''A Young Girl Reading'', and ''The Secret Meeting''.<ref>{{citation |author=Stein, Perrin |title=Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/frag/hd_frag.htm |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |accessdate=August 28, 2014}}</ref> Together with Boucher and [[Antoine Watteau]], he is one of the principal painters of French Rococo. He lost his [[wikt:wealth|wealth]] during the [[French Revolution]]. After the revolution, the painting style was different, because he had trouble adapting, he died a poor man. == Gallery == <gallery> File:Fragonard, Inspiration.jpg|Self-portrait, 1769 File:Fragonard 1775 adoration des bergers Louvre.jpg|Adoration of the Shepherds (1775) File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard 019.jpg|Girl playing with dog File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard 009.jpg|The Lock File:Fragonard, The Swing.jpg|The Swing File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Blind Man's Bluff.jpg|Blind Man's Bluff File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard 014.jpg|The Swing File:Fragonard Confession of Love.jpg|Confession of Love </gallery> == Related pages == * [[List of French painters]] == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fragonard, Jean-Honore}} [[Category:French painters]] [[Category:Writers from Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur]] [[Category:1732 births]] [[Category:1806 deaths]] [[Category:People from Alpes-Maritimes]]