Fantastical Portraits

Painting series by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Fantastical Portraits or Fantasy Portraits (French: Portraits de fantaisie) are a series of portraits by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, mostly dating to 1769. It is said that each was executed in a single hour, from which they gained the Italian name fa' presto (made quickly).

* François-Henri d'Harcourt (1769), private collection

* Inspiration (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris

* Portrait of a man (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris

* The Warrior (c. 1769), Clark Art Institute

* Portrait of a Woman with a dog (1769), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

## See also

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* List of works by Fragonard

## References

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* Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., pp. 57–58 (French) (ISBN 9782850561849)

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List of works

Paintings|

* Blind Man's Buff (c. 1750)
* The See-Saw (Madrid; c. 1750–1752)
* Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752)
* Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753)
* The Birth of Venus (c. 1753)
* The Storm (c. 1759)
* The Palette Game (c. 1761–1765)
* The See-Saw (Louvre; c. 1761–1765)
* Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (1765)
* The Swing (c. 1767)
* Fantastical Portraits (1769)
* Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole (c. 1769)
* The Woman With A Dog (1769)
* The New Model (c. 1770)
* A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770)
* The Music Lesson (c. 1770)
* The Raised Chemise (c. 1770)
* Adoration of the Shepherds (1775)
* The Visit to the Nursery (1775)
* Blind Man's Buff (1775-1780)
* The Bolt (1777)
* The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)

Related|

* Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife)
* Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son)
* Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law)
* Rococo

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