La Fontaine d'Amour
Medium
Etching with aquatint
Dimensions
Image: 10 3/8 × 7 1/4 in. (26.3 × 18.4 cm) trimmed
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Walter Moore, 1947
Accession Number
47.59.2
Tags
LoveWomenPutti
About the Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard|Jean-Baptiste Audebert · 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...