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

Young Woman and a Herdsman in a Landscape

c. 1765
Oil on panel, 39 x 48 cm
Private collection

This panel belongs to a body of more than 30 surviving paintings, made over a period of at least a decade, in which Fragonard reproduced the manner of seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes, especially those of Jacob van Ruisdael. There is also considerable evidence that some of these pictures were commissioned as pendants to seventeenth-century Dutch paintings.




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