Fragonard, Jean Honore FINE ART Original Etching Le Contrat 1732-1806

Description: Fine Art Jean Honore Fragonard Original Etching Le Contrat 1732-1806, 32 1/2 INCHES X 26 1/2 INCHES ON THE FRAME. A THING OF BEAUTY IS INDEED A JOY FOREVER! THIS ENGRAVING IS OVER 200-YEARS-OLD AND IT SHOWS SOME FOXING AND WATER DAMAGE ON THE BORDER, WHICH MAKES SENSE FOR AN ENGRAVING THAT WAS MADE DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY ERA! FRAGONARD WAS IN THE ANCIEN REGIME, BUT HE WAS PROBABLY SPARED FROM THE GUILLOTINE BECAUSE OF HIS SUPPORT FROM JACQUES LOUIS DAVID, WHO WAS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S COURT PAINTER! THE PREVIOUS OWNER PROVIDED THE INFORMATION BELOW: The image is titled : "Le Contrat. Gravé d`après le Tableau d` H. Fragonard, Peintre du Roi, par M. Blot." It is inscribed under the title : "A Paris, chez Leun, Rue St. Jeun de Bernard, No. 10." Jean-Honoré Fragonard (4 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. [From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.] This is an antique print guaranteed to be over 200 years old. It is not a later re-print.THE ENGRAVING WAS MATTED AND AT MICHAEL'S AND FRAMED, AND IT IS READY TO HANG. THIS OUTSTANDING ENGRAVING BY JEAN HONORE FRAGONARD WILL BE A SUBSTANTIAL ADDITION TO ANY ART COLLECTION! ALL USED ITEMS ARE SOLD AS-IS, NO RETURNS. (NOTE: THE INK ON THE BACKGROUND IS SO DARK THAT IT WAS DIFFICULT TO PHOTOGRAPH THIS ENGRAVING, EVEN WITH A FLASH!)

Price: 99 USD

Location: Columbia, Missouri

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