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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

1732 - 1806

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe fʁaɡɔnaʁ]; 5 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Honoré Fragonard is the 90th most popular painter (down from 86th in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from France (down from 247th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Painter.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of sensual scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 90 out of 2,023. Before him are Canaletto, Bronzino, Max Ernst, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, François Boucher, and Duccio. After him are Cimabue, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Oskar Kokoschka, Honoré Daumier, Paolo Uccello, and Vittore Carpaccio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 3. Before him are Joseph Haydn, and George Washington. After him are Frederick North, Lord North, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Jérôme Lalande, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Johann Christoph Adelung, John Dickinson, and Adélaïde of France. Among people deceased in 1806, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 2. Before him is Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. After him are Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, William Pitt the Younger, Charles-Henri Sanson, William V, Prince of Orange, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Carlo Gozzi, Michael Haydn, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Pierre-Charles Villeneuve.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 268 out of 6,770. Before him are Letizia Ramolino (1750), Annie Ernaux (1940), Saint Roch (1295), François Boucher (1703), Charles the Simple (879), and Serge Gainsbourg (1928). After him are Philip I of France (1052), Francis de Sales (1567), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Jean Marais (1913), and Louis, Dauphin of France (1729).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 25. Before him are Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Seurat (1859), Berthe Morisot (1841), and François Boucher (1703). After him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Honoré Daumier (1808), Paul Signac (1863), Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Georges de La Tour (1593).

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