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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Died on August 22, 1806

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French:; 5 April 1732 – 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism.

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