Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean- Honoré Fragonard [ ʒã onoʀe fʀaɡonɑʀ ] ( born April 5, 1732 in Grasse (Alpes -Maritimes); † August 22, 1806 in Paris) was a French painter, draftsman and etcher of the Rococo to the Ancien Régime.

He was a pupil of François Boucher and developed the painting style of Boucher further conceptually. Fragonard then formed in Rome and was on his return by his image Koresos and Kallirrhoe member of the Academy. The prevailing taste, anbequemend, he left the compartment of historical painting throughout and was the painter of pleasure, of lust and cheerful enjoyment of life in the style of Antoine Watteau. Besides Boucher and Watteau he is one of the three masters of the French Rococo.

In the French Revolution, he lost his acquired through numerous easel paintings and decorative assets and died, because he is the new classical direction was not able to join with success in poverty and oblivion. According to him, stood the famous engraver of his time; also he etched himself a number of leaves after his own invention and after Tintoretto, Giovanni Lanfranco, Sebastiano Ricci, Annibale Carracci, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, among others

His son Alexandre- Évariste Fragonard was a sculptor and painter, his cousin Honoré Fragonard was anatomist and taxidermist.

Fragonard's work style is characterized by a flaky and loose brushwork that appears ( Tiepolo ). Thus his figures are less adherent porcelain and vivid than in the drawings Boucher. Partial reminds his rough brushwork of works by Frans Hals and like in this forward- pointing to Impressionism.