The Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d'Este
Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1760 and c. 1765 · pen and brown and gray ink with brown and gray wash red chalk counterproof on laid paper
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About this picture
The Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d'Este is a public-domain drawing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, dated 1760 and c. 1765. Pen and brown and gray ink with brown and gray wash red chalk counterproof on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Avenue of Cypresses at Villa d'Este” (1760 and c. 1765) 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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