Le Temps Orageux
Medium
Etching, second state
Dimensions
image: 16 9/16 x 19 13/16 in. (42 x 50.3 cm), trimmed to image
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.466
Tags
SheepTreesStormsCoat of Arms
About the Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard|Jean Mathieu · 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...