Circumcision
Jean Honoré Fragonard
1763/64
Medium
Etching on off-white laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.5 × 12.9 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 9.5 × 14 cm (3 3/4 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 16.7 × 23.5 cm (6 5/8 × 9 5/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
191211
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...