Fantastical Portraits
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The Fantastical Portraits or Fantasy Portraits (French: Portraits de fantaisie) are a series of portraits by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, mostly dating to 1769. It is said that each was executed in a single hour, from which they gained the Italian name fa' presto (made quickly).
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Inspiration.jpg
Inspiration (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Portait d'un homme, anciennement portrait de Denis diderot par Fragonnard.jpg
Portrait of a man (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris
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Jean Honore Fragonard Portrait of a man called the warrior.jpg
The Warrior (c. 1769), Clark Art Institute
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Fragonard Woman w Dog 1769 MMA.jpg
Portrait of a Woman with a dog (1769), The Metropolitan Museum of Art
References
- Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., pp. 57-58 (French) (ISBN 9782850561849)
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