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Search the bottom of the sheet for the two children half hidden under the leaves, then follow a single branch up into the canopy.
Fragonard made this red chalk drawing in 1760, during his years as a student of the French Academy in Rome, between 1756 and 1761. A tangle of trees and climbing leaves arches over a rough wooden frame, and two small children rest in its shade at the bottom. Quick, looping strokes turn the foliage into one moving mass of light and shadow.
Red chalk on cream laid paper · 36 × 48.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Rococo
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- Museum title
- Arbor with Two Children (Le Nid d'Armour)
- Artist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard French, 1732-1806
- Date
- 1760
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 36 × 48.5 cm (14 3/16 × 19 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.