Jean Honoré Fragonard. Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games. 1763. France. Etching on ivory laid paper This set of four etchings may refer to ancient bas-reliefs Fragonard saw while visiting Rome with an important antiquarian, the Abbé de Saint Non (see , .454, and .456). The size of the paired oval and rectangular reliefs—one or more of which might derive from ancient engraved cameos instead of large-scale sculptures—remains ambiguous, although hidden objects in the surrounding foliage suggest a large scale. Regardless of their source, the popula
Jean Honoré Fragonard. Nymph Sitting on the Hands of Two Satyrs from Bacchanales, or Satyrs' Games. 1763. France. Etching on ivory laid paper This set of four etchings may refer to ancient bas-reliefs Fragonard saw while visiting Rome with an important antiquarian, the Abbé de Saint Non (see , .454, and .456). The size of the paired oval and rectangular reliefs—one or more of which might derive from ancient engraved cameos instead of large-scale sculptures—remains ambiguous, although hidden objects in the surrounding foliage suggest a large scale. Regardless of their source, the popularity of Fragonard’s printed reliefs reflected the taste for Neoclassicism in France at this time.
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