Jean-Honoré Fragonard is the last great exponent of French rococo art and a bridge to Neo-classicism.
Fragonard’s best works are those that represent amorous adventures or depict single fantasy figures painted with high color and great brio. His masterpiece is the Progress of Love, a series of large canvases commissioned by King Louis XV’s mistress, the duchesse du Barry, and now in the Frick Collection, New York.
Selected artworks
Top 3 auction prices
2000
1999
2013
Books on Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Yuriko Jackall, Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures, exh. cat., Washington D.C., 2017.
Guillaume Faroult, ed., Fragonard Amoureux: Galant et Libertin, exh. cat., Paris, 2015.
Pierre Rosenberg, ed., Fragonard, exh. cat., New York, 1988.
Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre; Catalogue Complet des Peintures, Paris 1987, trans., 1988.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, French Eighteenth-Century Painters: Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, La Tour, Greuze, Fragonard, 1880-2, trans. Robin Ironside, Ithaca, 1981.