F.J.B. Watson
Contributor
LOCATION: Corton, United Kingdom
Director of the Wallace Collection, London, 1963–74. Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art, 1963–72. Author of Fragonard; Canaletto; and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French Rococo painter whose most familiar works, such as The Swing (1767), are characterized by delicate hedonism. Fragonard was the son of a haberdasher’s assistant. The family moved to Paris about 1738, and in 1747 the boy was apprenticed to a lawyer, who, noticing his…
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