Invocation to Love
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806) · c. 1781 · Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper
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About this picture
Invocation to Love is a CC0 drawing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732–1806), dated c. 1781. Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Invocation to Love” (c. 1781) is handled with Fragonard’s light, quick paint: a garden, a flirtation, or a figure turned in motion.
About the artist
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) was a French Rococo painter. Gardens, lovers, and a quick brush are his usual subjects. The Swing is the picture people mean by his name.
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