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The Progress of Love: Love Letters

1771–72

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The story

After Du Barry sent the canvases back, Fragonard kept them in storage for twenty years. In 1790, with the Revolution under way, he installed them in his cousin's Villa Maubert in Grasse and painted ten more panels around them.

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Object details

Title: The Progress of Love: Love Letters
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Date: 1771–72
Culture: French
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: The Frick Collection, New York
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0161
Original image: 2046 × 3000 px
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License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The Progress of Love: Love Letters. 1771–72. The Frick Collection, New York. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0161/