Fragonard, les gammes de l’amour

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732−1806) embraced his century, the 18^th, by accepting commissions from libertines and moralists alike, as well as from dreamers and lovers of rustic and mythological allegories. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard conveyed an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. A sampling of Fragonard’s lovers, specialists in his acts of daring, lead us into the nooks and crannies of his themes — and beds.