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In an article published in 1987, which is further developed in her 1990 monograph,52 Mary Sheriff convincingly argues that Fragonard's fantasy figures 'cannot be characterized as face-paintings'.53 She claims that modern critics have misunderstood the eighteenth-century meaning of the term 'portrait de fantaisie', which she defines as 'an imagined figure not made from a specific model', hence not a portrait at all in the conventional (modern) sense. She sees Fragonard's paintings as ...
"In Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s 'fantasy portraits,' his congenial sitters are caught mid-stream in a range of pleasurable, intimate activities," writes Colin Bailey of a recent exhibition and catalogue that brought together fourteen of the portraits, each one said to have been painted in an hour's time.
In Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “fantasy portraits,” his congenial sitters are caught mid-stream in a range of pleasurable, intimate activities. The spontaneity and speed of his performance are palpable: hues are blended…
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