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A Boy Carried into a Salon
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
Not on view
We do not know the precise subject of this late sheet, but it seems to relate to the education of children, a topic of growing interest in France at the time. While many of Fragonard’s earlier treatments of similar themes take place in rustic settings, here the surroundings suggest a more privileged milieu. The paleness of the washes reveals the energy and speed with which the artist put down his initial ideas in chalk. He later completed a more finished version of the drawing.
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