The Pond (Q72753438)

Label from: English (en)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Q127171)
collection: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
location: Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
owned by: Alexis Joseph Febvre (Q107674994)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: EQGC7G2l7dp-ew

catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/pond

information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog

description: Fragonard was the last and perhaps the greatest of the French Rococo painters. A pupil of François Boucher, from whom he developed his fluent handling of paint, he produced some of the most masterful and hedonistic decorations of the eighteenth century. A less familiar facet of his work is represented by a group of paintings inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes. These addressed a growing appreciation among a segment of the artist’s clientele for the simpler, more naturalistic style of the Dutch School.

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