A Boy as Pierrot

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A Boy as Pierrot: Jean-Honore Fragonard

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Jean-Honore Fragonard Oil Painting - A Boy as Pierrot

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Work Overview: A Boy as Pierrot
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Date: c.1780
Style: Rococo
Genre: portrait
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
Wallace Collection, London

The fanciful composition imitates several miniatures which have been attributed to Fragonard, whose wife exhibited a number of miniatures of children between 1779 and 1782.

The painting shows the 'portrait de fantaisie' of a boy in a theatre costume that is too large for his age. It follows the template of Dutch head-studies in a costume (tronies) and adapts them to the world of the Commedia dell'Arte and the Fête galante. Fragonard also aims to evoke the sense of a pastel, a fashionable eighteenth-century technique. The combination of these traits is typical of Fragonard's intelligent play with painterly genres and styles.
The miniatures produced by Fragonard’s wife Anne-Marie Gérard are stylistically related and probably date from the same period. One of them follows the Wallace painting closely (London, Christie's, 27/28 November 2012, lot 441). Originally, the painting had a pendant of a girl in a pearl necklace (Los Angeles, County Museum of Art) that was also formerly in the Livois collection.

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