There has been plenty of press around the reopening of the Frick Collection in New York this month. There is a lot to say: $220 million spent over five years to renovate and expand the museum has ...

Ullstein Bild/Getty Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) is one of art’s enigmas. No misunderstood, romantic genius who struggled for acceptance in his own time, the young Fragonard succeeded with ...

The faces on the walls of the National Gallery of Art’s Jean-Honoré Fragonard exhibition are keenly aware that they are making an impression. Rendered with thick strokes of paint pulled with sp ...

The rococo genius Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) would fit snugly into our present art world. You might even call the French artist the Jeff Koons of his day: possessed of a virtuosity so ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for ... at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. “A philosopher reading” by Fragonard ...

A painting by the 18th-century French Rococo master Jean-Honoré Fragonard—long considered "insignificant" by its owner—has sold at auction for £6.6m (with fees). Offered by the French ...

Yet, amid these riches, there is, I am embarrassed to admit, one series of paintings in particular that stands out from the others for me, and it’s Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Progress of ...

their paintings demonstrate a potential social critique, eroticism and playfulness worthy of 18 th century artists Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean Honoré Fragonard. Currin and ...

Every art lover has experienced this disappointment: You travel somewhere, set on seeing a specific object, and find that it has been lent out, is under restoration, or inexplicably unavailable.