Fragonard : Painting Out of Time, Hardcover by Padiyar, Satish, ISBN 1789142091, ISBN-13 9781789142099, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
At the time of his death in 1806, the rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter’s reputation fell. <i>Fragonard: Painting Out of Time</i> takes this prolonged artistic silence as a point of departure to investigate the maverick personality of Fragonard within the lively society of eighteenth-century France. Personally secretive, Fragonard nevertheless created revealing images that undermined a normal sense of space and time. Satish Padiyar investigates the life and work of the last of the libertine painters of the <i>ancien regime</i>, a contemporary of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and presents dramatic new perspectives on works such as <i>The Progress of Lov</i>e, painted for Madame du Barry, the infamous <i>The Bolt</i>, and the ever-popular <i>The Swing</i>.