The painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) demonstrated remarkable drive in his career, which encompassed a variety of styles. A southern-born painter from Grasse, a town among olive groves and vineyards in Provence, he won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1752 and made good use of his time in the Eternal City, though he sometimes felt … Continue reading French painting during the XVIII Century, IV. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Élisabeth Louise ...| The Artistic Adventure of Mankind
The 18th century in France was extraordinarily complex in both thought and art, as it combined a new conception of life with the exaltation of individualism and an incessant analysis of the possibi…| The Artistic Adventure of Mankind
