Fragonard's Progress Of Love At The Frick Collection

Description

An in-depth study of Fragonard's series of paintings The Progress of Love, one of the masterpieces of French 18th-century art

Author description

Colin B. Bailey is Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York. Recent publications include Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection (2009); Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780) (2007); and The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of 18th-century French Genre Painting (2003).

Table of contents

Fragonard and Decoration: Projects for the Crown; Projects for Private Patrons Ledoux, Du Barry, and Louveciennes A Site-Specific Series Allegory, Symbolism, Meaning Rejection and Replacement The Fragonards in Grasse: Rediscovery, Publication, Export Fragonard's Progress of Love at 13 Princes Gate Morgan's Fragonards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Constructing and Furnishing Frick's Drawing Room at 1 East 70th Street Frick, Duveen, and Belle da Costa Greene: Brokering the Morgan Collection Creating the Fragonard Room at 1 East 70th Street