Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard
Charles Louis François Le Carpentier French
After Marguerite Gérard French
Sitter Jean Honoré Fragonard French
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.
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