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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

[French Rococo Era Painter, 1732-1806]

• Relationships: Husband of Marie Anne Gerard Fragonard.
Father of Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard.
Grandfather of Berthe Morisot.
Brother-in-law of Marguerite Gerard.
Studied under Chardin, Francois Boucher and Carle Vanloo.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in History Painting.
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Original works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
10 works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard online

Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
18 works by Jean-Honore Fragonard

Guggenheim Berlin
The Girl with the Marmot

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Stairs in a Park, ca.1760
The Captured Kiss
The Stolen Kiss
, 1780s

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

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
Reading, ca.1778

Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Adoration of the Shepherds, ca.1776

Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Wrapped-up Cat, ca.1777

Jean-Honore Fragonard in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
21 painting

Jean-Honore Fragonard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Many works, including: The Love Letter, ca.1770s
The Stolen Kiss, 1756-61
The Two Sisters

Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Red parrot

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Jean-Honore Fragonard at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
22 works by Jean-Honore Fragonard

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
The Lost Forfeit, or Captured Kiss
(there are more paintings in the Flash slideshow "Daily Life Interactive")


National Gallery, London, UK   NEW!
Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid
Interior Scene


Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
View of a Park, drawing

Art Fund for UK Museums

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3 drawings online

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Sultane sur une ottomane, ca.1772-76

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   NEW!

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
Young Woman

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
12 works online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Selections from a recent exhibition: "Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks"

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Pond

Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)   NEW!  
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Jean-Honore Fragonard in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Shepherdess

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

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   NEW!

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, Spain
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

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

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Laundresses, ca.1756-61

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
8 paintings online

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Blindman's Buff

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Blind-Man's Bluff
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Landscape with Three Washerwomen, ca.1765

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

 
Commercial Galleries:
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center

Artchive  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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CGFA  

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Artyzm

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Other Web Sites:
Christie's
Le Verrou

FBI Art Theft Program
Portrait of a man with a lute, stolen from a residence in Belgium

The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Portrait of Denis Diderot

The Modernist Journals Project

 
Articles:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

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
Young Woman, ca.1769

  
Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The Swing





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