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The Island of Love
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
Not on view
Fragonard used gouache, an opaque form of watercolor, on only a few occasions. This view of a pleasure garden, despite its small scale, is a finished work meant to stand on its own—a silvery version of a larger painting (today in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon). Like many of Fragonard’s late landscapes, it is a product of the artist’s imagination that presents the natural world as a place of mystery, thrill, and pleasure.
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