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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (called “the Amiable Frago” by his friends) was born on April 5, 1732 into a solidly middle-class family. They resided in the city of Grasse in the hills of southeastern France, not far from the Mediterranean. His father, François Fragonard, was a glove manufacturer. Somewhere around this time he invested heavily into a business plan to supply Paris with its first fire pump, in which he lost his money. In an attempt to recover it, he moved with his family to the capital, where the matter ended in a ruinous lawsuit. Honoré was about six at this time.

The family had rather standard ambitions for their only child, and by his mid-teens they obtained for Honoré a desirable clerkship with a notary. Continued...
 

	Blindman's Bluff. c.1750-52. Oil on canvas. 117 x 91 cm. The Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, OH, USA.
	Young Woman Holding Up Her Child. c.1750-52. Oil on oval canvas. 47 x 32 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Idols. 1752. Oil on canvas. Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France. More..
	Venus and Cupid (also called Day). c. 1752-53. Oil on canvas. 114 x 133 cm. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. More..
	Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid. 1753-54. Oil on canvas. 168 x 192 cm. National Gallery, London, UK. More..
	Winter. c. 1753-56. Oil on canvas. 80 x 164 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
	Washerwomen. c.1758-61. Oil on canvas. 64 x 75 cm.  Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA.
	The Lost Wager. c. 1759. Oil on canvas. 47 x 60 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Italian Family. c. 1759. Oil on canvas. 48.9 x 59.4 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Storm or The Cart Stuck in the Mire. 1759. Oil on canvas. 73 x 97 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	The Entrance to the Fountain of Pomona, Known as Fontanone, at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli. 1760. Red chalk. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France.
	The Grand Cascade at Tivoli. 1760. Oil on canvas. 72.5 x 60.5 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Self-Portrait. c.1760. Oil on canvas. Musée-Villa Fragonard, Grasse, France.
	The Gardens of the Villa d 'Este at Tivoli ("The Little Park"). c. 1761-62. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London, UK.
	Avenue of Trees. c.1762-63. Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. Private collection.
	The Watering Place. c.1762-64. Oil on canvas. 34 x 45.6 cm. Private collection.
	The Bathers. c. 1762-64. Oil on canvas. 64 x 80 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
	Coresus and Callirhoe (First version). c. 1762-1765. Oil on canvas. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers. More..
	Venus Refusing Cupid a Kiss. 1760s. Oil on oval canvas. 37 x 34 cm. Private collection. More..
	The New Model. 1760s. Oil on canvas. 34 x 65 cm. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France.