Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 October 1780 |
| Died | 10 November 1850 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | French |
| Education | Fragonard, David |
| Known for | painting, sculpting |
| Movement | troubadour style |
Alexandre-Évariste Coccinelle Fragonard[1] (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.
Works
The Immured based on the legend of the Château du Bousquet, recorded in the Chronicle of the House of Roquefeuil (1926) by Colonel Daupeyroux which tells of a Lord who walled up his daughter and a neighbor lover over an illicit affair
Scene in the bedroom of Marguerite of Valois during the night of Saint Bartholomew, 1836, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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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