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The Little Park
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
Not on view
The Little Park is one of Fragonard’s most famous and enigmatic subjects. He treated it six times—in the five works on view here and on a small canvas in the Wallace Collection, London. Although it does not seem to depict an actual site, it relates closely to a drawing he had made in the gardens of the Villa d’Este at Tivoli, outside Rome, especially in the forms of the paired trees that frame the distant vista and the balustrade just in front of them.
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