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The Indiscreet Bull
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
Not on view
Rustic landscapes and farmyard scenes inspired by seventeenth-century Dutch painting were popular in eighteenth-century France, and Fragonard was not immune to their charms. More often than not, he chose to animate his versions of such scenes with the amorous pursuits of young farmworkers. Here, a bull raises his head from a drinking trough to stare, as if dumbstruck, while a young woman resists the sudden advances of a shepherd.
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