A Shaded Avenue ca. 1775 Jean Honoré Fragonard French Fragonard was a gifted landscapist who combined his knowledge of earlier Dutch painting, notably the dramatic light effects and craggy trees of artists like Jacob van Ruisdael, and his experience in Italy, including its formal gardens and ancient ruins. He returned repeatedly to the subject of a long alley of overscaled trees that creates a dark tunnel at the end of which a bright light illuminates a figure or, as here, a fountain. The work’s small scale and meticulous finish appealed to eighteenth-century A Shaded Avenue. Je
A Shaded Avenue ca. 1775 Jean Honoré Fragonard French Fragonard was a gifted landscapist who combined his knowledge of earlier Dutch painting, notably the dramatic light effects and craggy trees of artists like Jacob van Ruisdael, and his experience in Italy, including its formal gardens and ancient ruins. He returned repeatedly to the subject of a long alley of overscaled trees that creates a dark tunnel at the end of which a bright light illuminates a figure or, as here, a fountain. The work’s small scale and meticulous finish appealed to eighteenth-century A Shaded Avenue. Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris). ca. 1775. Oil on wood. Paintings
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