The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fragonard, by Haldane Macfall
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MASTERPIECES
IN COLOUR
EDITED BY . .
T. LEMAN HARE
FRAGONARD
In the Same Series
| Artist. | Author. |
| VELAZQUEZ. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| REYNOLDS. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| TURNER. | C. Lewis Hind. |
| ROMNEY. | C. Lewis Hind. |
| GREUZE. | Alys Eyre Macklin. |
| BOTTICELLI. | Henry B. Binns. |
| ROSSETTI. | Lucien Pissarro. |
| BELLINI. | George Hay. |
| FRA ANGELICO. | James Mason. |
| REMBRANDT. | Josef Israels. |
| LEIGHTON. | A. Lys Baldry. |
| RAPHAEL. | Paul G. Konody. |
| HOLMAN HUNT. | Mary E. Coleridge. |
| TITIAN. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| MILLAIS. | A. Lys Baldry. |
| CARLO DOLCI. | George Hay. |
| GAINSBOROUGH. | Max Rothschild. |
| TINTORETTO. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| LUINI. | James Mason. |
| FRANZ HALS. | Edgcumbe Staley. |
| VAN DYCK. | Percy M. Turner. |
| FRAGONARD. | C. Haldane MacFall. |
| LEONARDO DA VINCI. | M. W. Brockwell. |
In Preparation
| WHISTLER. | T. Martin Wood. |
| RUBENS. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| BURNE-JONES. | A. Lys Baldry. |
| J. F. MILLET. | Percy M. Turner. |
| CHARDIN. | Paul G. Konody. |
| HOLBEIN. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| BOUCHER. | C. Haldane MacFall. |
| VIGÉE LE BRUN. | C. Haldane MacFall. |
| WATTEAU. | C. Lewis Hind. |
| MURILLO. | S. L. Bensusan. |
| And Others. | |
PLATE I.—CHIFFRE D’AMOUR. Frontispiece
(In the Wallace Collection)
Fragonard, like his master Boucher, soon found that the pompous, historical, and religious pictures which the critics demanded of him, pleased no one but the critics. It was a fortunate day for him when he turned his back upon them, and employed his charming gifts upon the statement of the life of his day. And in few paintings that created his fame has he surpassed the fine handling of this scene, in which the girl cuts her lover’s initials on the trunk of a tree—the dainty figure silhouetted against the dreamlike background of sky and tree that he loved so well. There is over all the glamour of the poetic statement supremely done.
