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Fragonard and Romantic Allegory

January 5, 2016

In 1773, the engraver Jean Massard gave Fragonard a copy of a collection of romantic poetry from Antiquity, attributed in particular to the poet Anacreon (582-485 B.C.), whose illustrations by Charles Eisen he had just engraved.

Fragonard and the revival of the "Fête Galante"

November 27, 2015

The years 1760 to 1780 witnessed a progressive decline in the values of libertinism...