Fragonard

Name: Fragonard
Author: Macfall, Haldane
Macfall, Haldane
Fragonard, Jean Honoré, 1732-1806
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Masterpieces in Colour

Edited by--T. Leman Hare

FRAGONARD

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IN THE SAME SERIES

    ARTIST.                AUTHOR.
  VELAZQUEZ.             S. L. BENSUSAN.
  REYNOLDS.              S. L. BENSUSAN.
  TURNER.                C. LEWIS HIND.
  ROMNEY.                C. LEWIS HIND.
  GREUZE.                ALYS EYRE MACKLIN.
  BOTTICELLI.            HENRY B. BINNS.
  ROSSETTI.              LUCIEN PISSARRO.
  BELLINI.               GEORGE HAY.
  FRA ANGELICO.          JAMES MASON.
  REMBRANDT.             JOSEF ISRAELS.
  LEIGHTON.              A. LYS BALDRY.
  RAPHAEL.               PAUL G. KONODY.
  HOLMAN HUNT.           MARY E. COLERIDGE.
  TITIAN.                S. L. BENSUSAN.
  MILLAIS.               A. LYS BALDRY.
  CARLO DOLCI.           GEORGE HAY.
  GAINSBOROUGH.          MAX ROTHSCHILD.
  TINTORETTO.            S. L. BENSUSAN.
  LUINI.                 JAMES MASON.
  FRANZ HALS.            EDGCUMBE STALEY.
  VAN DYCK.              PERCY M. TURNER.
  FRAGONARD.             C. HALDANE MACFALL.
  LEONARDO DA VINCI.     M. W. BROCKWELL.

    _In Preparation_

  WHISTLER.              T. MARTIN WOOD.
  RUBENS.                S. L. BENSUSAN.
  BURNE-JONES.           A. LYS BALDRY.
  J. F. MILLET.          PERCY M. TURNER.
  CHARDIN.               PAUL G. KONODY.
  HOLBEIN.               S. L. BENSUSAN.
  BOUCHER.               C. HALDANE MACFALL.
  VIGÉE LE BRUN.         C. HALDANE MACFALL.
  WATTEAU.               C. LEWIS HIND.
  MURILLO.               S. L. BENSUSAN.
            AND OTHERS.

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[Illustration: PLATE I.--CHIFFRE D'AMOUR. Frontispiece

(In the Wallace Collection)

Fragonard, like his master Boucher, soon found that the pompous,
historical, and religious pictures which the critics demanded of him,
pleased no one but the critics. It was a fortunate day for him when he
turned his back upon them, and employed his charming gifts upon the
statement of the life of his day. And in few paintings that created
his fame has he surpassed the fine handling of this scene, in which
the girl cuts her lover's initials on the trunk of a tree--the dainty
figure silhouetted against the dreamlike background of sky and tree
that he loved so well. There is over all the glamour of the poetic
statement supremely done.]


Fragonard

by

HALDANE MACFALL

Illustrated with Eight Reproductions in Colour








[Illustration]

London: T. C. & E. C. Jack
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.




TO

MY FRIEND

WALTER EMANUEL




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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