The progress of love: The lover crowned

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1771-1772

Height:

317.8 cm  (125 1/8 in.)

Width:

243.2 cm  (95 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A young woman crowns her lover with a floral wreath while an artist sketches the posed scene. On the ground to the right of the pair a large tambourine (with jingles) lies on an open music book. The book has mostly legible notation. A mandolin lies on the ground at the woman's feet.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746] (with jingles)
Mandolin [3510]

Musical works

legible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Paintings in The Frick Collection: French, Italian and Spanish. (New York: The Frick Collection, 1968) vol. 2.

Notes

From the series entitled The Progress of Love.

RIdIM record id

1652