Fragonard

Autorentext

Satish Padiyar is an honorary research fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. His previous books include Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France.

Klappentext

At the time of his death in 1806, the rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter's reputation fell. Fragonard: Painting Out of Time takes this prolonged artistic silence as a point of departure to investigate the maverick personality of Fragonard within the lively society of eighteenth-century France. Personally secretive, Fragonard nevertheless created revealing images that undermined a normal sense of space and time. Satish Padiyar investigates the life and work of the last of the libertine painters of the ancien regime, a contemporary of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and presents dramatic new perspectives on works such as The Progress of Love, painted for Madame du Barry, the infamous The Bolt, and the ever-popular The Swing.

Zusammenfassung
A brilliant new account of maverick French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard.