Jean-Honoré Fragonard: where to see him across these museums

Born in Grasse, Fragonard trained in Paris under both François Boucher and Jean-Siméon Chardin before winning the Prix de Rome in 1752 without ever formally entering the Academy. During a stay in Rome from 1756 to 1761, he turned away from the approved High Renaissance masters and toward the freer, more colorful example of Tiepolo.

Back in France he became one of the most prolific painters of the century — over 550 surviving paintings, only five of them dated — capturing the frivolous pleasures of pre-Revolutionary court life with a loose, rapid brush. That world vanished with the Revolution, and Fragonard’s Rococo manner fell sharply out of fashion; he spent his final years largely forgotten, and died in Paris in 1806.

Fragonard paintings on display, museum by museum

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Listen to the commentary in the gallery

This list tells you where to look. In front of the actual painting, CulturAll adds the audio commentary: photograph the work or its label, listen, then ask your questions.