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Jean-Honoré Fragonard Works Online
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Original works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
6 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Berlin
This space is now closed, but some information about past exhibitions remains online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Stairs in a Park, ca.1760
The Captured Kiss
The Stolen Kiss, 1780s
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard Museum-Villa, Grasse, France
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca.1776
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Bolt, ca.1777
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Curiosity, ca.1775-80
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Reading, ca.1778
Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Wrapped-up Cat, ca.1777
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
21 painting
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Red parrot
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid
Interior Scene
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
View of a Park, drawing
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Charlemagne Leads Angelica away from Roland
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
2 works online
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
L'Armoire (The Cupboard), 1778
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Bacchanale (The Satyr Family), etching, ca.1759-61
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Bacchanale, etching, ca.1759-61
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Avenue with figures
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Warrior, ca.1769
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Portrait of Madame Fragonard
Portrait of the Painter Hubert Robert
Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont
The Shepherdess, 1760-65
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Shepherdess
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Perrette et le pot au lait
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Les Grands Cyprès de la villa d'Este, drawing
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
PDF format info about a 2006-2007 exhibition of the museum's Fragonard collection
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (in French)
.PDF document with a good reproduction of Les Grands cyprès de la villa d'Este (drawing)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Les Blanchisseuses ou l'Etendage
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Les grands cyprès de la villa d'Este, 1760
Portrait présumé de Rosalie, fille de l'artiste, ca.1780
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
The Fête at Rambouillet or The Island of Love
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed 'à l'espagnole'
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Renaud and Armide
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Landscape with Shepherds and Flock of Sheep, ca.1763-65
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Jupiter, Io and Juno, ca.1770-80
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Portrait of a Neapolitan Girl, 1774
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Interior of a Park: The Gardens of the Villa d'Este
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Landscape with Flocks and Trees
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
The Sacrifice of Coresus
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
Melissa destroys the magical works of Alcina
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Laundresses, ca.1756-61
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Das Traumgesicht des Ruggiero: Bradamante wird von einem Riesen im Kampf zu Boden geworfen, ca.1780
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Blindman's Buff
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "European 1000-1900" category, then see the work in the second row of thumbnails)
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida - Provenance Research
Le Billet Doux
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Portrait des François-Henri, Duc d'Harcourt, ca.1769
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Die hübsche Köchin
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
The Progress of Love: The Meeting (The Frick Collection, New York)
Jean-Honore Fragonard at The Art Renewal Center
Jean-Honore Fragonard at The Artchive
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
FBI Art Theft Program
Portrait of a man with a lute, stolen from a residence in Belgium
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Portrait of Denis Diderot
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Honore Fragonard 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Young Woman, ca.1769
The Magazine Antiques
Image 9 in the slideshow is a drawing by Fragonard
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
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Fragonard (Drawing Gallery series)
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