Interior
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 15/16 in. (24.5 × 17.6 cm) Image: 9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in. (23 × 17 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, in honor of Perrin Stein, 2014
Accession Number
2014.79
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of Jean Honoréagonard’s *Interior* (1778), a etching that captures the playful essence of late Rococo art. Fragonard, a master of the French Rococo, was renowned for his lighthearted, sensual scenes filled with swirling fabrics, soft lighting, and human warmth. Created toward the end of the18th century, this depicts a cozy domestic interior populated by men, women, and childrenlikely evoking everyday family life with the artist's signature whimsy and elegance. Etching, Fragonard’s chosen medium here, involves drawing on a wax-coated copper plate, immersing it in a...
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...