Artist · 16 prints
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Prints
About Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter, born in Grasse in 1732, who died in Paris in 1806. His family moved to Paris when he was a boy, and after a short spell working for a lawyer he trained with Jean-Siméon Chardin and then François Boucher. In 1752 he won the Prix de Rome, the top prize for young French painters, and from 1756 to 1761 he studied at the French Academy in Rome.
Fragonard became one of the leading painters of the Rococo, the light, playful style of 18th-century France, with scenes of lovers, gardens and pleasure painted with quick, lively brushwork. The Swing (about 1767) hangs in the Wallace Collection in London. The Progress of Love (1771–72), a set of canvases made for Madame du Barry and then turned down by her, is now at the Frick Collection in New York. In later years his style moved toward Neoclassicism, and he also made book illustrations, landscapes and fanciful portraits.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard prints: reproductions of paintings by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, made between about 1750 and 1785. The collection includes The Swing (1767), The Stolen Kiss (1760), The Love Letter (1770), The Progress of Love: The Meeting (1771) and The Fountain of Love (1785).
This selection focuses on Fragonard's scenes of courtship and play: lovers, garden games such as Blind-Man's Buff and A Game of Hot Cockles, and figures set in leafy parks. It also includes quieter portraits and interiors, among them Young Girl Reading (1769), The Two Sisters (1769) and A Boy as Pierrot, and a garden view of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli (1760).
The warm, soft colours and garden settings suit living rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms; the smaller portraits fit studies, reading corners and hallways. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
