The Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d'Este
1760 and c. 1765
Medium
pen and brown and gray ink with brown and gray wash red chalk counterproof on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 45.6 × 34.2 cm (17 15/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner
Accession Number
2013.130.3
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...