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Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
French painter and sculptor (1780–1850) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard[1][failed verification] (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility, perfecting them under Jacques-Louis David. His parents were Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Marie-Anne Fragonard.
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Works
His paintings include:
- Francis I Armed as a Knight
- Francis I Receiving Primaticcio (ceiling of the Louvre)
- Joan of Arc Climbing to the Stake
- Tasso Reading Jerusalem Delivered
- Francis I at Marignan
- Mirabeau Replying to Dreux-Brézé
As a sculptor, he produced the old pediment of the Chambre des Députés and a colossal statue of Pichegru.
He designed an engraving called the Interior of a Revolutionary Committee under the Terror, which was engraved by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault and Claude Nicolas Malapeau in 1802.
- Diane de Poitiers in the studio of Jean Goujon, 1825
- The Immured based on the legend of the Château du Bousquet, recorded in the Chronicle of the House of Roquefeuil (1926) by Colonel Daupeyroux which tells of a lord who walled up his daughter and a neighbor lover over an illicit affair
- Scene in the bedroom of Marguerite of Valois during the night of Saint Bartholomew, 1836, Musée du Louvre, Paris
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