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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

1732 - 1806

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɔnɔʁe fʁaɡɔnaʁ]; 5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Honoré Fragonard has received more than 920,833 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Jean-Honoré Fragonard is the 86th most popular painter, the 247th most popular biography from France (up from 257th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Painter.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter who is most famous for his paintings of sensual scenes.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 86 out of 2,023. Before him are Alfred Sisley, Jackson Pollock, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Canaletto, Pietro Perugino, and Berthe Morisot. After him are Honoré Daumier, Duccio, Mary Cassatt, Paolo Uccello, Rogier van der Weyden, and Francis Picabia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 3. Before him are Joseph Haydn, and George Washington. After him are Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Jérôme Lalande, Adélaïde of France, Johann Christoph Adelung, Richard Arkwright, and Abbas III. Among people deceased in 1806, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 2. Before him is Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. After him are Charles-Henri Sanson, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Utamaro, William V, Prince of Orange, William Pitt the Younger, Michael Haydn, Carlo Gozzi, Ferdinand Karl, Archduke of Austria-Este, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 247 out of 6,770. Before him are Richard II of England (1367), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), Simone Weil (1909), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Oscar I of Sweden (1799). After him are Pope Callixtus II (1065), Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Honoré Daumier (1808), Philip III of France (1245), Ferdinand Foch (1851), and Pope Leo IX (1002).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 25. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Gustave Doré (1832), François Boucher (1703), Alfred Sisley (1839), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), and Berthe Morisot (1841). After him are Honoré Daumier (1808), Francis Picabia (1879), Paul Signac (1863), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Claude Lorrain (1600).

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