Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1769
French · 1732–1806
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.
Independent artist guide by Momentable. Biography from Wikipedia; artworks credited to the museums that hold them.
LIVENow streaming · Jean-Claude Richard, abbé of Saint-NonA selection of 8 works, free to stream.
Jean-Claude Richard, abbé of Saint-Non
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1769
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The See-Saw
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1750
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Blind Man's Bluff
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1760
Toledo Museum of Art
The Happy Family
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
The Stolen Kiss
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1787
State Hermitage Museum
Mountain Landscape at Sunset
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
Young Girl Reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
The Visit to the Nursery
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
7 of Jean Honoré Fragonard's works, and what makes each one worth a look.
Jean-Claude Richard, abbé of Saint-Non
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1769
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
The Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole is a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard conserved at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona, from c. The knight, with his arrogant pose, is sitting beside a fountain in which his horse is drinking. He is dressed à l'espagnole, an expression which in eighteenth-century France was used to refer to picturesque or fancy attire, and had no bearing on the Spanish fashions of the time.
The See-Saw
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1750
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The See-Saw is an oil-on-canvas painting by French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, created c.1750 to 1752 during the artist's early career. It is currently in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The painting forms a pair with another Fragonard work entitled Blind Man's Bluff.
Blind Man's Bluff
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1760
Toledo Museum of Art
Blind Man's Bluff is a painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced around 1750 in oil on canvas. It is held by the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, United States, which purchased it with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of the glass manufacturer Edward Libbey who founded the museum in 1901. The artist also produced another work of the same title some time between 1775 and 1780, which is held in the Samuel H.
The Happy Family
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
The Swing, also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing, is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best-known work. The painting depicts an elegantly dressed young woman on a swing.
The Stolen Kiss
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1787
State Hermitage Museum
The Stolen Kiss is an oil painting on canvas executed in 1787 and located in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. It has been historically attributed to the French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 to 1806). At 45 by 55 centimetres (18 in × 22 in), the painting is a genre scene influenced by Dutch Golden Age painting, depicting a young couple in a secretive romance, set in the foreground, a subject that was favoured before the French Revolution among French aristocrats.
Young Girl Reading
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
Young Girl Reading, or The Reader, is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand. The painting is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
The Visit to the Nursery
Jean Honoré Fragonard
National Gallery of Art
The Visit to the Nursery is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, created c. 1775, now held in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which it entered in 1946 as part of the Samuel H. It was previously identified with a work auctioned in a 1780 sale of Fragonard's major client Jean François Leroy de Senneville (1715 to 1784), a fermier général, and then re-auctioned four years later, but a work more closely matching that work's description was rediscovered around 2009 in a collection in Estonia.
The museums that hold it, and their visitor guides.
Artists held by the same museums.

Jean Honoré Fragonard on your TV, phone, or tablet. Free to start.
View on MomentableIndependent guide by Momentable · biography from Wikipedia · artworks are in the public domain and credited to the museum that holds them