Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806) - 1787-89 The Stolen Kiss (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and print maker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of pre-revolutionary France, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.
Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806) - 1787-89 The Stolen Kiss (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and print maker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of pre-revolutionary France, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.