FRAGONARD, Jean-Honoré
(b. 1732, Grasse, d. 1806, Paris)

A Boy as Pierrot

1776-80
Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
Wallace Collection, London

The fanciful composition imitates several miniatures which have been attributed to Fragonard, whose wife exhibited a number of miniatures of children between 1779 and 1782.