Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Born (1780-10-26)26 October 1780
Grasse, France
Died 10 November 1850(1850-11-10) (aged 70)
Paris, France
Nationality French
Education Fragonard, David
Known for painting, sculpting
Movement troubadour style

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard[1] (26 October 1780, Grasse[2] – 10 November 1850, Paris[3]), son of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, was a French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style. He received his first training from his father and drew from him his piquant subjects and great facility, perfecting them under David.

Works

The Immured
Scene in the bedroom of Marguerite de Valois during the night of Saint Bartholomew, 1836, Musée du Louvre, Paris

His paintings include :

As a sculptor, he produced the old pediment of the Chambre des Députés and a colossal statue of Pichegru.

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Notes

  1. He was nicknamed "Fanfan" by his parents. M. Fanfan jouant avec M. Polichinelle (1778), a collaborative etching by his aunt Marguerite Gérard and his father Jean-Honoré Fragonard, depicts the young Alexandre-Évariste.
  2. Sardou, J. B.; Archives départementales, Archives communales de Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes (France) (1865). Inventaire sommaire des Archives communales antérieures à 1790, ville de Grasse. Paul Dupont. p. 11. Retrieved 17 May 2009. Acte de naissance d'Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, peintre et statuaire : « Le vingt-six octobre 1780, est né et a été baptisé Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, fils de sieur Jean-Honoré Fragonard, peintre du Roi, et de demoiselle Marie-Anne Gérard, son épouse; le parrain, sieur Alexandre Maubert, négociant, et la marraine demoiselle Marie-Catherine-Rose Mercurin, épouse de sieur Pierre-Joseph Camatte, négociant, qui ont signé : le père se trouve absent; le grand-père paternel a signé Maubert, Mercurin, Camatte, Fragonard, Magdeleine Gérard, Gérard, Mougins Roquefort curé. ».
  3. Bulletin de la Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan et du Var. 13–14. Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draquignan et du Var. 1880. p. 20.

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