Astolfo Sails off with Andronica and Sofrosina
Jean Honoré Fragonard
early 1780s
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
39.3 × 26.7 cm (15 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202341
About the Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1732–1806
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. Born in Grasse, he moved to Paris where he trained under Jean-Baptiste Chardin and François Boucher, winning the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1752. After studying in Italy alongside Hubert Robert, Fragonard returned to Paris in 1761 to fi...