Definition of Jean Honore Fragonard

1. Noun. French artist whose rococo paintings typified the frivolity of life in the royal court of France in the 18th century (1732-1806).

Exact synonyms: Fragonard
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Honore Fragonard

Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Harlow
Jean Honore Fragonard (current term)
Jean Laffite
Jean Lafitte
Jean Louis Charles Garnier
Jean Luc Godard
Jean Martin Charcot
Jean Monnet
Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Paul Marat
Jean Piaget
Jean Racine
Jean Sibelius
Jean de La Fontaine
Jeanes

Literary usage of Jean Honore Fragonard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old Régime: Court, Salons, and Theatres by Elliot Jackson, Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1896)
"Jean Honore Fragonard. — The Painter Chardin. — The Queen's Oratoire. —• The Winner of the Grand Prix..— Advice to a Young Artist. — An Admirable Plan. ..."

2. A History of French Painting from Its Earliest to Its Latest Practice by Clara Cornelia Harrison Stranahan (1888)
"... Fragonard (1780-1850), Paris : pupil of David, and son of Jean Honore Fragonard ; he took four medals ; Legion of Honor, 1819. ..."

3. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was taught in the atelier of Boucher and in Rome until 1765. In his hands art degenerates into an uncurbed lascivious play ..."

4. A Short History of Engraving & Etching, for the Use of Collectors and by Arthur Mayger Hind (1908)
"... while an even more exquisite refinement of light and line is seen in the slighter studies of J- H- Boucher's pupil Jean Honore Fragonard. ..."

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