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Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard

After Marguerite Gérard French
1808
Not on view
This charming etching is one of the few portraits of French painter, Jean Honoré Fragonard. The portrait is a bust-length image of the artist as an older man, presented as a roundel framed by profuse foliage. Below the portrait is a partly-overgrown illusionistic plaque bearing the artist’s name. The likeness seems to be based on a portrait by Fragonard’s sister-in-law, Marguerite Gérard, while the verdant surround pays homage to Fragonard’s series of etched bacchanals of the early 1760s.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard
  • Artist: Charles Louis François Le Carpentier (French, Pont-Audemer 1744–1822 Rouen)
  • Artist: After Marguerite Gérard (French, Grasse 1761–1837 Paris)
  • Sitter: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
  • Date: 1808
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Image: 6 7/16 × 3 3/4 in. (16.3 × 9.5 cm)
    Plate: 6 15/16 × 4 3/16 in. (17.6 × 10.6 cm)
    Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 1/16 in. (23.3 × 15.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, in memory of Samuel P. Avery, 2015
  • Object Number: 2015.493.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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