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L'AMOUR FOLIE

Creator(s): Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Painter)

On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom


About this object

Love is flying through rosy colored and white clouds against a blue sky and holds aloft in his right hand a jester's staff. Flying in the upper right corner are pairs of white doves. Another pair is directly beneath the right foot of Love and still another pair is in the near foreground. Pink roses are in the right and left foreground.

Object name:
L'AMOUR FOLIE
Made from:
oil on canvas -- wood
Made in:
FRANCE
Date made:
1772-1773
Size:
54.6 × 46.4 cm (21 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
51.7
Class:
PAINTING
Signature marks:
LABELS 73430 / La Folie Fragonard; 291; 27647; No 30; 8833; #470, Un tableau ovale ecole française du ... siècle, La Folie par Fragonard gravé par Janinet [On back] INSCRIPTION Sel. 74 [On back]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973