Allegory of Vigilance
Jean Honoré Fragonard
ca. 1772 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings
The female figure is not a portrait sitter but a model in allegorical guise, and the oil lamp and books are traditional symbols of vigilance. Fragonard paints in wide liquid strokes, stopping for few details, in a style typical of his work in the 1770s.
- Artist
- Jean Honoré Fragonard
- Date
- ca. 1772
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Gift of René Fribourg, 1953
