The ''Fantastical Portraits'' or ''Fantasy Portraits'' (French: ''Portraits de fantaisie'') are a series of portraits by the French painter
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732
(birth/baptism certificate)
– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ar ...
, 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).
File:Fragonard - François-Henri d'Harcourt.jpg, ''François-Henri d'Harcourt'' (1769), private collection
File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Inspiration.jpg, ''Inspiration'' (1769), Musée du Louvre
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, Paris
File:Portait_d'un_homme,_anciennement_portrait_de_Denis_diderot_par_Fragonnard.jpg, ''Portrait of a man'' (1769), Musée du Louvre
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, Paris
File:Jean Honore Fragonard Portrait of a man called the warrior.jpg, ''The Warrior'' (c. 1769), Clark Art Institute
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File:Fragonard_Woman_w_Dog_1769_MMA.jpg, ''Portrait of a Woman with a dog'' (1769), The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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References
* Pierre Cabanne, ''Fragonard'', Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., 156 p. (), p. 57 and 58
{{Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1769 paintings
18th-century portraits
Portraits of men