Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard | |
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Born | |
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.
He was born in Grasse,[2] and died in Paris.[3]
Works[]
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The Immured
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Scene in the bedroom of Marguerite de Valois during the night of Saint Bartholomew, 1836, Musée du Louvre, Paris
His paintings include :
- François Ier armé chevalier
- François Ier recevant le Primatice (ceiling of the Louvre)
- Jeanne d'Arc montant sur le bûcher
- Tasse lisant la Jérusalem délivrée
- François Ier à Marignan
As a sculptor, he produced the old pediment of the Chambre des Députés and a colossal statue of Pichegru.
Designed an engraving called the, Interieur d'un Comitè Rèvolutionnaire sous la Terreur, 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. 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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- 1780 births
- 1850 deaths
- People from Grasse
- 18th-century French painters
- French male painters
- 19th-century French painters
- Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
- 19th-century French sculptors
- French male sculptors
- 19th-century male artists
- French sculptor stubs
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