Margaruerite Gerard Reading to Her Mother and Rosalie Fragonard
Jean Honoré Fragonard
c. 1785
Medium
Brush and brown wash, and graphite, on tan laid paper
Dimensions
33.1 × 40.4 cm (13 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23642
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...