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Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (26 October 1780 – 10 November 1850) 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 Jacques-Louis David. His parents were Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Marie-Anne Fragonard.

He was born in Grasse, and died in Paris.

Works

His paintings include:

• Francis I Armed as a Knight
• Francis I Receiving Primaticcio (ceiling of the Louvre)
• Joan of Arc Climbing to the Stake
• Tasso Reading Jerusalem Delivered
• Francis I at Marignan
• Mirabeau Replying to Dreux-Brézé

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

He designed an engraving called the Interior of a Revolutionary Committee under the Terror, which was engraved by Pierre-Gabriel Berthault and Claude Nicolas Malapeau in 1802.

• Diane de Poitiers in the studio of Jean Goujon, 1825
• The Immured based on the legend of the Château du Bousquet, recorded in the Chronicle of the House of Roquefeuil (1926) by Colonel Daupeyroux which tells of a lord who walled up his daughter and a neighbor lover over an illicit affair
• Scene in the bedroom of Marguerite of Valois during the night of Saint Bartholomew, 1836, Musée du Louvre, Paris

References

Citations

1. He was nicknamed "Fanfan" by his parents. See M. Fanfan jouant avec M. Polichinelle (1778), a collaborative etching by his aunt Marguerite Gérard and his father Jean-Honoré Fragonard, which depicts the young Alexandre-Évariste.
2. Sardou, J. B. (1865). Inventaire sommaire des Archives communales antérieures à 1790, ville de Grasse. Archives départementales, Archives communales de Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes (France). 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. Vol. 13–14. Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draquignan et du Var. 1880. p. 20.

General and cited references

• Dictionnaire Bouillet (Bouillet Dictionary)

External links

• Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard short biography in ART “4” “2”-DAY
• Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard on Artcyclopedia

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