Fragonard
Americannoun
noun
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His student competition pictures of the 1770s are rendered in the painterly technique and pastel colors associated with the Rococo style of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
You step from 15th-century Italy into 18th-century France and the Rococo world of Fragonard and Watteau.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2020
Upon entering the show, my first thought was of intimate surfaces of Rococo painting — François Boucher and Fragonard.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2020
The names of Lisa del Giocondo, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, and a million so-called courtesans don’t endure as da Vinci, Sargent, and Fragonard, even if their likenesses do.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2018
Fragonard simply ceased painting for want of patrons, and David was good enough to procure him a post in the Museum des Arts, or he would have starved.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
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