The Circumcision
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
After Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) Italian
Not on view
This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. Of the sixteen, ten were based on Venetian models, including this one after Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, 1519-1594). In copying Tintoretto's painting in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Fragonard focused on the central scene, reducing the number of figures, suggesting a more intimate space.
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