2 MATCHING PICTURE FRAMES ~JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD PRINT

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2 MATCHING PICTURE FRAMES ~JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD PRINT Description PAIR 1920s ORNATE PICTURE FRAMES ~JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD PRINTS These beautiful prints are in excellent condition. No fading, foxing or tears. These frames look like they were repainted at one time. One of the frames has a little piece missing in the upper right corner. Someone has colored it in so it is not that noticeable(see close-up in the last photo). Other than that the frames are in good condition with only a little minor wear. The overall sizes with the frames are 13 x 15 1/2 each and the images measuring from the back lip is in-case you want these for the frames only are 10 1/2 X 13 . One of the prints is written on the back: "The Swing" by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732- 1806) ___________________________________________________________________ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean-Honoré Fragonard 5 April 1732– 22 August 1806) 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 (not counting drawings and etchings ), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism .Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born at Grasse , Alpes-Maritimes , the son of François Fragonard, a glover , and Françoise Petit. [1 ] He was articled to a Paris notary when his father's circumstances became strained through unsuccessful speculations, but showed such talent and inclination for art that he was taken at the age of eighteen to François Boucher , who, recognizing the youth's rare gifts but disinclined to waste his time with one so inexperienced, sent him to Chardin 's atelier. Fragonard studied for six months under the great luminist, then returned more fully equipped to Boucher, whose style he soon acquired so completely that the master entrusted him with the execution of replicas of his paintings. Though not yet a pupil of the Academy , Fragonard gained the Prix de Rome in 1752 with a painting of " Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Golden Calf", but before proceeding to Rome he continued to study for three years under Charles-André van Loo . In the year preceding his departure he painted the "Christ washing the Feet of the Apostles" now at Grasse cathedral. On 17 September 1756, he took up his abode at the French Academy in Rome , then presided over by Charles-Joseph Natoire .While at Rome, Fragonard contracted a friendship with a fellow painter, Hubert Robert . In 1760, they toured Italy together, executing numerous sketches of local scenery. It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art. He also learned to admire the masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools ( Rubens , Hals , Rembrandt , Ruisdael ), imitating their loose and vigorous brushstrokes. Added to this influence was the deep impression made upon his mind by the florid sumptuousness of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , whose works he had an opportunity to study in Venice before he returned to Paris in 1761.In 1765, his "Coresus et Callirhoe " secured his admission to the Academy. It was made the subject of a pompous (though not wholly serious) eulogy by Diderot , and was bought by the king, who had it reproduced at the Gobelins factory. Hitherto Fragonard had hesitated between religious, classic and other subjects; but now the demand of the wealthy art patrons of Louis XV 's pleasure-loving and licentious court turned him definitely towards those scenes of love and voluptuousness with which his name will ever be associated, and which are only made acceptable by the tender beauty of his color and the virtuosity of his facile brushwork; such works include the Blind man's bluff , Serment d'amour (Love Vow), ... read more

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