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Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted the last and lightest phase of French Rococo. Born in Grasse in 1732, he trained under Chardin and Boucher. He then built a career on private commissions. Lovers in overgrown gardens, silk catching the light, a swing flying above the shrubbery. The brushwork is quick and confident. Hung at home, a Fragonard brings warmth and a little theatre to a room, particularly in dining rooms and bedrooms.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French Rococo painter, born in Grasse and trained in Paris under Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and François Boucher. He won the Prix de Rome at twenty, spent years in Italy, then returned to Paris and largely left history painting for private patrons. The Swing, painted in 1767, is the picture everyone knows. The Progress of Love panels and Girl with a Dog show the same appetite for movement and rose-coloured light. The Revolution ended his market, and he died with little money in 1806.
The range covers his garden scenes and figure studies, among them two versions of The Swing and Girl with a Dog. Expect deep green, rose, cream and gold, with foliage painted as loose masses rather than leaves. These were decorative pictures by intention. Fragonard worked for rooms, and the prints behave the same way at home.
Rococo wants a little formality around it. A gilt or champagne frame is the natural choice, and the prints look right above a sideboard, a fireplace or a dressing table. The greens and roses sit well with cream walls, damask and dark polished wood. In a bedroom, one garden scene hung at eye level is enough. Keep modern graphic prints off the same wall; Fragonard needs room to breathe.
Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.
