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Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born April 5, 1732 • Grasse • France
Died August 22, 1806 (aged 74) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome
Notable Works “Progress of Love” • “The Swing”
Movement / Style Neoclassical art • Rococo

Photos

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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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
French painter
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
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Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo
Gentile Bellini
Italian painter
Augustus John, self-portrait, chalk on paper, c. 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Augustus John
Welsh painter
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
Self-portrait, painting on canvas by Angelica Kauffmann; in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Angelica Kauffmann
Swiss painter
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul Cézanne
French artist
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist

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