Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard
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
- 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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