ジャン・オノレ・フラゴナール

Jean-Honoré Fragonard mastered the art of pleasure. Born in Grasse in 1732, he trained under Chardin and Boucher in Paris, then won the Prix de Rome at twenty. After five years in Italy, where he studied Tiepolo and the Dutch masters, he returned to paint the intimate, erotically charged scenes that defined his career—aristocratic love games rendered in luminous color and virtuosic brushwork. Works like The Swing distilled an entire world of courtly desire into single, perfectly pitched moments. As the century's tastes shifted and revolution came, Fragonard's Rococo manner fell from favor.