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Portrait of a Man by Jean-Honoré Fragonarg The Swing, detail, oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1766; in the Wallace Collection, London.
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The Swing, detail, oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1766; in the Wallace Collection, London.
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

French painter
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Director of the Wallace Collection, London, 1963–74. Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art, 1963–72. Author of Fragonard; Canaletto; and others.
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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...

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