FRAGONARD

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (17321806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism. The starting-point for this beautifully illustrated book (and the exhibition which it accompanies) was the discovery in 2012 of a drawing by Fragonard depicting his so-called 'fantasy figures'. Fragonards drawing presents thumbnail-sized sketches relating to 14 of his known 'fantasy-figure' paintings rapidly executed, brightly coloured portraits of lavishly-costumed individu...[Read more]