Swing holds profound cultural significance in India, evolving from a simple plank to an ornate household staple and a muse ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Happy Accidents of the Swing (c.1767). Image: Courtesy of New Directions. The Swing’s coy game of back-and-forth functions on two levels.

NEW YORK — Jean Honoré Fragonard, whose work as a draftsman is the subject of a stately show at the Metropolitan Museum, in New York, survived the French Revolution. But he was by no means a ...

Fragonard is usually viewed as the third great master of the Rococo, after Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and François Boucher (1703-70), but the style was already losing ground in the 1760s, as ...

“Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures,” an unprecedented exhibition curated by Jackall at the National Gallery of Art (opening October 8) begins to answer these questions.

Fragonard lived from 1732-1806 and is considered one of the most emblematic painters of the 18th century. The oval-shaped, oil-on-canvas painting shows a white-haired man leaning over a book.

With a collection of 20,000 garments and accessories, the Musée Fragonard de la Mode et du Costume opened its doors on July 6 ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing has become even more saucy and titillating. The Wallace Collection’s painting has been cleaned, removing darkened varnish, and the wide-eyed young woman now ...

In the intimate and exquisite “Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures,” an exhibition of 14 paintings and the newly discovered sheet of sketches on which many of them appear, Yuriko Jackall, an ...

A London gallery has asked visitors to spot the single fake, produced for about $100 in China, and displayed among its priceless collection. NPR's Scott Simon reflects on what makes art valuable.