Fabius Maximus Before the Carthaginensis Senate
Jean Honoré Fragonard
1763/64
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.2 × 10 cm (6 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 15.8 × 10.2 cm (6 1/4 × 4 1/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
191205
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...