Jeu de Societe dans un Parc
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 13 15/16 x 16 1/8 in. (35.4 x 40.9 cm) image: 10 11/16 x 12 1/16 in. (27.2 x 30.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Roland L. Redmond Gift, Louis V. Bell and Rogers Funds, 1972
Accession Number
1972.539.18
Tags
Art Historical Context
Jean Honoré Fragonard *Jeu de Societe dans un Parc* (Society Game in a Park), undated etching, captures the elegance of 18th French aristocratic leisure. Fragonard, a master of Rococo style, delighted in scenes of flirtation and frivolity, often depicting carefree gatherings amid lush gardens. Here, men and women engage in a lighthearted outdoor game surrounded by trees, evoking the opulent world of Versailles-era society where such pastimes symbolized refined amusement and social bonding. As an etching—a precise intaglio printmaking technique involving acid-bitten metal plates— this work sho...
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...