How do we translate “Fragonard amoureux: galant et libertin,” the delightful, informative exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, through Jan. 24, 2016? The first part is easy ...

Opening July 6, Fragonard's latest museum in Arles is the story of two dynasties united by friendship, a love for heirloom crafts and a knack for collecting. On one side are the French beauty and ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 the King as far as silliness, which was a great achievement of the Ancien Régime, right before they came to Greece, in France. And it's ... All these paintings are about, I guess ...

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 ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré ...