![]() He’s not even British…but rather a Texan ex-cattle rancher, given to the most exquisite of British bespoke suits and without a trace of drawl. Instead of a jewel thief, he’s an art expert charged with tracing Nazi-stolen art from World War II and returning it to owners. The ITC British television series gives Mannering a moral face-lift. However, he could easily have studied Dutch 17th century landscapes in private collections in Paris.In John Creasey’s novels the Baron, aka John Mannering, is an ex-jewel thief, a suave, knowledgeable, ethically dubious character who was somehow gang-pressed into assisting the police. Whether or not Fragonard actually ever travelled to Holland remains uncertain. Far from a simple imitation, Fragonard reinterprets the style of his predecessors according to his eighteenth century sensibility. The artist adds rural figures, often heightened with lively red, and also animals. The blue and silvery sky takes up three quarters of the composition. With great subtlety Fragonard shows condensed and sometimes threatening clouds that find an echo with the rough terrain and the silhouettes of trees. Fragonard’s admiration for Jacob van Ruisdael, whose influence is evident in the present picture, was already brought to light. The Torrent reveals a direct influence of Dutch 17th century landscapes on the aesthetics of that time. On his return to Paris in 1761, Fragonard undertook a series of landscapes close in style to Dutch 17th century painting. During the summer of 1760 a visit to the villa d’Este at Tivoli was going to have a decisive impact on Fragonard’s artistic career. Fragonard and Robert worked a lot together in the country side and influenced each other profoundly in style. In Rome Fragonard became a close friend of Hubert Robert and the Abbé de Saint-Non. From 1756 to 1761 he studied at French Academy in Rome, at this time directed by Natoire who encouraged his pupils to work out of doors and draw landscapes. ![]() He obtained the Prix de Rome in 1752 and worked under Carle Vanloo in the Ecole royale des élèves protégés for three years. 86, n° 134 (ill.).įragonard was a pupil of Jean Siméon Chardin and François Boucher. ![]() Rosenberg, Tout l’œuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, p. J.P Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, vie et œuvre, Fribourg, 1987, p.Réau, Fragonard, sa vie, son œuvre, Bruxelles, 1956, p. Baron de Portalis, Jean Honoré Fragonard, sa vie, son œuvre, Paris, 1889, p. ![]()
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