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Orlando Kills the Orc with an Anchor, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Public domain

Orlando Kills the Orc with an Anchor

Jean-Honoré Fragonard · black chalk with brown wash on laid paper

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Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.

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About this picture

Orlando Kills the Orc with an Anchor is a public-domain drawing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Black chalk with brown wash on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“Orlando Kills the Orc with an Anchor” (date not listed) 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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