Marie-Anne Fragonard
French artist (1745–1823)
Marie-Anne Fragonard, née Gérard, (1745–1823) was a French painter of portrait miniatures.
Known for being the wife of the painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard since 1769, she also painted miniatures, which, after having long been attributed to her husband, were returned to her name by the historian Pierre Rosenberg. She painted in a free and easy style, which was close to the style of Jean-Honoré.
- A work by Marie-Anne Fragonard from the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
- This lively miniature was long thought to have been painted by Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). Today, it is attributed to Marie Anne Fragonard.[1]
- Marie-Anne Fragonard never signed her work, and scholars now suspect that many miniatures, such as this one, once ascribed to her more famous husband are actually her work. The relative clumsiness of this miniature compared to the painterly verve and charm associated with Jean-Honoré Fragonard's graceful art makes the attribution to J.-H. Fragonard unlikely.[2]
See also
- Marguerite Gérard (sister)
References
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- Fragonard Besançon Pierre Rosenberg, Claudine Lebrun and Claire Stoullig, Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besancon, 2006 ed. 5 continents, 2006 (ISBN 8874393636 and 9788874393633).
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- The See-Saw (Madrid; c. 1750–1752)
- Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752)
- Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753)
- The Birth of Venus (c. 1753)
- The Storm (c. 1759)
- The Palette Game (c. 1761–1765)
- The See-Saw (Louvre; c. 1761–1765)
- Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (1765)
- The Swing (c. 1767)
- Fantastical Portraits (1769)
- Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole (c. 1769)
- The Woman With A Dog (1769)
- The New Model (c. 1770)
- A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770)
- The Music Lesson (c. 1770)
- The Raised Chemise (c. 1770)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (1775)
- The Visit to the Nursery (1775)
- Blind Man's Buff (1775-1780)
- The Bolt (1777)
- The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)
- Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife)
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son)
- Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law)
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