Fragonard’s Fantasy Figures
Fragonard’s Fantasy Figures
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About the AuthorYuriko Jackall is Assistant Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The starting-point for this beautifully illustrated book (and the exhibition which it accompanies) was the discovery in 2012 of a drawing by Fragonard depicting his so-called 'fantasy figures'. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo style was distinguished by a remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism. The book assembles Fragonard’s fantasy figures alongside his original sketch for the first time. Fragonard’s drawing presents thumbnail-sized sketches relating to 14 of his known 'fantasy-figure' paintings - rapidly executed, brightly coloured portraits of lavishly costumed individuals, including Young Girl Reading (c.1770) in the coll
Yuriko Jackall is Assistant Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.