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''The New Model'' (French: ''Les Débuts du modèle'') (''The Model's Début'' or ''The Model's First Session'') is a c. 1770 oil-on-canvas painting by
''The New Model'' (French: ''Les Débuts du modèle'') (''The Model's Début'' or ''The Model's First Session'') is a c. 1770 oil-on-canvas painting by 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 art ...
, acquired by Édouard André
Édouard François André (; 17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces in Lithuan ...
before his marriage and now in the Musée Jacquemart-André
The Musée Jacquemart-André (, ) is a private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 8th arrondissement of Paris. The museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (art collector), Édouard An ...
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The middle-aged man standing on the right side is the painter holding a stick, the paint brush. The woman is the topic of his painting, she is what he wants to paint. The older woman in the middle offers the younger woman to him. Her bare chest is a sign of her willingness to cooperate in this incestuous scenario. This painting can be compared to Fragonard's ''The Swing'' where an older man orchestrates the encounter of two young lovers.
See also
*List of works by Fragonard
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