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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 864,933 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 52 in 2019). Jean-Honoré Fragonard is the 86th most popular painter (down from 84th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from France (down from 240th 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 1,421Before him are Paul Signac, Fra Angelico, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Cimabue, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Paolo Uccello. After him are Berthe Morisot, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Max Ernst, Lisa del Giocondo, Filippo Lippi, and Matthias Grünewald.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 257 out of 6,011Before him are Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Vincent de Paul (1581), Charles the Simple (879), Joseph Fouché (1759), and Georges Cuvier (1769). After him are Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Arsène Wenger (1949), and Philip I of France (1052).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Honoré Fragonard ranks 25Before him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Gustave Doré (1832), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), François Boucher (1703), Honoré Daumier (1808), and Paul Signac (1863). After him are Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Claude Lorrain (1600), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Georges de La Tour (1593).