* Notable draftsmen of the 18th century include Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Antoine Watteau.

* Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter

* August 22 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter ( b. 1742 )

* April 5 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter ( d. 1806 )

He had a great influence on later painters, including François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 1732 – 1806 ), two masters of the late period.

Image: Fragonard, The Swing. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767

File: Fragonard, Inspiration. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Inspiration, 1769

Image: Denisdiderot. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Denis Diderot, 1769

File: Jean Honore Fragonard Surprise. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Meeting ( Part of the Progress of Love series ), 1771

In the interior, are three works by Rubens and one by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, a French painter native of the town.

* Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter

* Jean-Honoré Fragonard French artist ( 1732 – 1806 )

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

Detail from Jean-Honoré Fragonard | Fragonard's The Swing ( painting ) | The Swing ( 1767 )

The most famous painters of the era were Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

* The Swing ( painting ), a 1767 rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

File: Jean-Honoré Fragonard 009. jpg | Fragonard, The Lock, 1780

* 1806 in art-Death of Jean-Honoré Fragonard

* 1732 in art Birth of Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

Image: Denisdiderot. jpg | Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Portrait of Denis Diderot, 1769, Louvre, Paris.

French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon ’ s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ( begun in 1749 ) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d ' Alembert ’ s Encyclopédie ( volumes added between 1751 and 1772 ) thus became Ampère ’ s schoolmasters.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

Denis Diderot ( ; October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784 ) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer.

Denis Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, and began his formal education at the jesuitic Collège jésuite in Langres.

n ° 9 de la place dans le centre ville de Langres in the background on the right side the birthplace of Denis Diderot

Statue of Denis Diderot in the city of Langres, his birthplace

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Monument to Denis Diderot in Paris, VIe arrondissement, by Jean Gautherin

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