Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | |
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Born | (1780-10-26)26 October 1780 Grasse, France |
Died | 10 November 1850(1850-11-10) (aged 70) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Education | Fragonard, David |
Known for | painting, sculpting |
Movement | troubadour style |
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard[1][failed verification] (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility, perfecting them under Jacques-Louis David. His parents were Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Marie-Anne Fragonard.
He was born in Grasse,[2] and died in Paris.[3]
Works
His paintings include :
- Francis I Armed as a Knight
- Francis I Receiving Primaticcio (ceiling of the Louvre)
- Joan of Arc Climbing to the Stake
- Tasso Reading Jerusalem Delivered
- Francis I at Marignan
- Mirabeau Replying to Dreux-Brézé
As a sculptor, he produced the old pediment of the Chambre des Députés and a colossal statue of Pichegru.
Designed an engraving called the, Interior of a Revolutionary Committee under the Terror, which was engraved by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault and Claude Nicolas Malapeau in 1802.
References
Notes
- ^ He was nicknamed "Fanfan" by his parents. See M. Fanfan jouant avec M. Polichinelle (1778), a collaborative etching by his aunt Marguerite Gérard and his father Jean-Honoré Fragonard, which depicts the young Alexandre-Évariste.
- ^ Sardou, J. B. (1865). Inventaire sommaire des Archives communales antérieures à 1790, ville de Grasse. Archives départementales, Archives communales de Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes (France). Paul Dupont. p. 11. Retrieved 17 May 2009.
Acte de naissance d'Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, peintre et statuaire : « Le vingt-six octobre 1780, est né et a été baptisé Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, fils de sieur Jean-Honoré Fragonard, peintre du Roi, et de demoiselle Marie-Anne Gérard, son épouse; le parrain, sieur Alexandre Maubert, négociant, et la marraine demoiselle Marie-Catherine-Rose Mercurin, épouse de sieur Pierre-Joseph Camatte, négociant, qui ont signé : le père se trouve absent; le grand-père paternel a signé Maubert, Mercurin, Camatte, Fragonard, Magdeleine Gérard, Gérard, Mougins Roquefort curé. »
- ^ Bulletin de la Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan et du Var. Vol. 13–14. Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draquignan et du Var. 1880. p. 20.
Sources
- Dictionnaire Bouillet (Bouillet dictionary)
External links
- Media related to Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard at Wikimedia Commons
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard short biography in ART “4” “2”-DAY
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard on Artcyclopedia
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- Blind Man's Buff (c. 1750)
- The See-Saw (c. 1750)
- Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752)
- Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753)
- The Birth of Venus (c. 1753)
- The Storm (c.1759)
- 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)
- Les Débuts du modèle (c. 1770)
- A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770)
- The Music Lesson (c. 1770)
- The Raised Chemise (c. 1770)
- The Visit to the Nursery (1775)
- The Bolt (1777)
- The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)
- Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife)
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son)
- Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law)
- Rococo
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