1、On behalf of the French painters Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard.
2、While at Rome, Fragonard contracted a friendship with a fellow painter, Hubert Robert.
3、A lukewarm response to these series of ambitious works induced Fragonard to abandon Rococo and to experiment with Neoclassicism.
4、It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art.
5、There are also gold boxes, elaborate gilded bronze mounted clocks, paintings by Boucher (including his portrait of Madame de Pompadour, which is pictured on this page), Watteau and Fragonard.
6、One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien regime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated.
