Satyr Pressing Grapes Beside a Tiger
Medium
Brush and brown ink, and brown wash, heightened with traces of white gouache, over graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions
34.5 × 24.6 cm (13 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
97687
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...