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Painting series by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Fantastical Portraits or Fantasy Portraits (French: Portraits de fantaisie) are a series of portraits by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, mostly dating to 1769. It is said that each was executed in a single hour, from which they gained the Italian name fa' presto (made quickly).

François-Henri d'Harcourt (1769), private collection
Inspiration (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris
Portrait of a man (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Warrior (c. 1769), Clark Art Institute
Portrait of a Woman with a dog (1769), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

References

Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., pp. 57-58 (French) (ISBN 9782850561849)

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List of works
Paintings	Blind Man's Buff (c. 1750) The See-Saw (Madrid; c. 1750–1752) Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752) Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753) The Birth of Venus (c. 1753) The Storm (c. 1759) The Palette Game (c. 1761–1765) The See-Saw (Louvre; c. 1761–1765) Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (1765) The Swing (c. 1767) Fantastical Portraits (1769) Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole (c. 1769) The Woman With A Dog (1769) The New Model (c. 1770) A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770) The Music Lesson (c. 1770) The Raised Chemise (c. 1770) Adoration of the Shepherds (1775) The Visit to the Nursery (1775) Blind Man's Buff (1775-1780) The Bolt (1777) The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)
Related	Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife) Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son) Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law) Rococo

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