An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit
Jean Honoré Fragonard|François Boucher
ca. 1750–56 · Etching · Drawings and Prints
In this, his first print, Fragonard demonstrates a ready facility with the etching needle, producing a composition based on a chalk drawing by his master, François Boucher. Using a variety of short and staccato lines, Fragonard evokes the rough textures of the desert, where a saint seated on the rocky ground accepts a gift from an angel. The drawing by Boucher that was his model survives today in the National Gallery of Canada (inv.6888).
- Artist
- Jean Honoré Fragonard|François Boucher
- Date
- ca. 1750–56
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
