An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit

Jean Honoré Fragonard French
 After François Boucher French

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In this, his first print, Fragonard demonstrates a ready facility with the etching needle, producing a composition based on a chalk drawing by his master, François Boucher. Using a variety of short and staccato lines, Fragonard evokes the rough textures of the desert, where a saint seated on the rocky ground accepts a gift from an angel. The drawing by Boucher that was his model survives today in the National Gallery of Canada (inv.6888).

An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching

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An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching
An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit, Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris), Etching

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