Fragonard: Painting out of Time

At the time of his death in 1806, the rococo artist Jean—Honoré Fragonard had not painted for two decades. Following a period of huge public success, the painter’s reputation fell. Fragonard: Painting Out of Time takes this prolonged artistic silence as a point of departure to investigate the maverick personality of Fragonard within the lively society of eighteenth—century France. Personally secretive, Fragonard nevertheless created revealing images that undermined a normal sense of space a...