Fragonard (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Rosenberg, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810909219 ISBN 13: 9780810909212

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1988

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the eighteenth century French artist and discusses his major paintings.5NjBwBT

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

If the art of Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) consisted entirely of coy bedroom scenes, chubby cupids, slick sensual allegories and sentimental portraits of bearded old men, one could easily dismiss the French rococo painter as passe. But the exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this catalogue, give us Fragonard the moody outsider from Provence, the nature poet who liberated painting with his spontaneous brushwork. Rosenberg, chief curator at the Louvre, where the exhibit made its debut, helps us to appreciate the keen observation of the Italian drawings, the naturalism of the landscapes and animal studies. In the wild poetry of Wagon in the Mud or the totally unforced intimacy of The Kiss, Fragonard tapped depths of feeling rarely glimpsed in his historical or genre paintings. The overwritten text, full of superlatives, is complemented by 1300 illustrations, making this the fullest account to date of Fragonard's opus.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0810909219
• ISBN 13: 9780810909212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640