Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard Explained

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
Birth Date:	1780 10, df=yes
Birth Place:	Grasse, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Nationality:	French
Known For:	painting, sculpting
Training:	Fragonard, David
Movement:	troubadour style

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard^[1] (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,^[2] and died in Paris.^[3]

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.

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.

References

Sources

• Dictionnaire Bouillet (Bouillet dictionary)

External links

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

Notes and References

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. Book: Sardou, J. B.. Inventaire sommaire des Archives communales antérieures à 1790, ville de Grasse. Archives départementales, Archives communales de Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes (France). 1865. Paul Dupont. 11. 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. Book: Bulletin de la Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draguignan et du Var. 13–14. 20. Société d'etudes scientifiques et archéologiques de Draquignan et du Var. 1880.