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
What did the Impressionists Berthe Morisot and Renoir see in the Rococo painters Watteau and Fragonard?
From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2020
It’s so startling because the Frick is loaded with Fragonard — you know, romping women, pretty pictures — and this is decidedly not a pretty picture.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2020
Fragonard pursued an exactly opposite course, being advised thereto by Boucher, who said to him, "If you take Michelangelo and Raphael seriously, you are246 lost."
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
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