Interior

Jean Honoré Fragonard

1778 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

This print is one of a group of four the arist made in 1778, as he was introducing his sister-in-law, Marguerite Gérard to the rudiments of the technique. It features the full array of country "types" that recur in Fragonard’s work: barefoot children, buxom young women, and bearded old men. Because no clear narrative links the figures, the print has traditionally been referred to by the vague title Interior. Gérard made her own etching after the same lost model, presumably a brown wash drawing by her brother-in-law.

Artist

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Date

1778

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, in honor of Perrin Stein, 2014