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    Fragonard Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Fragonard Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Fragonard Masterpieces in Colour Series
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    Fragonard Masterpieces in Colour Series

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Fragonard Masterpieces in Colour Series - Haldane Macfall

    The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fragonard, by Haldane Macfall

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    Title: Fragonard

    Masterpieces in Colour Series

    Author: Haldane Macfall

    Release Date: February 17, 2013 [eBook #42118]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRAGONARD***

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    MASTERPIECES

    IN COLOUR

    EDITED BY . .

    T. LEMAN HARE

    FRAGONARD

    In the Same Series

    In Preparation

    PLATE I.—CHIFFRE D’AMOUR.   Frontispiece

    (In the Wallace Collection)

    Fragonard, like his master Boucher, soon found that the pompous, historical, and religious pictures which the critics demanded of him, pleased no one but the critics. It was a fortunate day for him when he turned his back upon them, and employed his charming gifts upon the statement of the life of his day. And in few paintings that created his fame has he surpassed the fine handling of this scene, in which the girl cuts her lover’s initials on the trunk of a tree—the dainty figure silhouetted against the dreamlike background of sky and tree that he loved so well. There is over all the glamour of the poetic statement supremely done.

    Fragonard

    BY HALDANE MACFALL

    ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

    REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

    LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

    NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

    TO

    MY FRIEND

    WALTER EMANUEL

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    I

    THE BEGINNINGS

    High up, amongst the Sea-Alps that stretch along the southern edge of France, where romantic Provence bathes her sunburnt feet in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, high on the mountain’s side hangs the steep little town of Grasse, embowered midst grey-green olive-trees. In as sombre a narrow street as there is in all her dark alleys, on the fifth day of April in the much bewigged and powdered year of 1732, there was born to a glovemaker of the town, worthy mercer Fragonard, a boy-child, whom the priest in the gloomy church christened Jean Honoré Fragonard.

    As the glovemaker looked out of his sombre house over the sunlit slopes of the grey-green olive-trees that stretched away to the deep blue waters of the sea, he vowed his child to commerce and a thrifty life in this far-away country place that was but little vexed with the high ambitions of distant, fickle, laughing Paris, or her splendid scandals; nay, scarce gave serious thought to her gadding fashions or her feverish vogues—indeed, the attenuated ghosts of these once frantic things wriggled southwards through the provinces on but sluggish feet to the high promenades of Grasse—as the worthy mercer was first in all the little town to know by his modest traffic in them; and that, too, only

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