Les Débuts du modèle
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Les Débuts du modèle (The Model's Début or The Model's First Session) is a c.1770 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, acquired by Édouard André before his marriage and now in the Musée Jacquemart-André.[1]
The middle-aged man standing on the right side is the painter holding a stick, the paint brush. The woman is the topic of his painting, she is what he wants to paint. The older woman in the middle offers the younger woman to him. Her bare chest is a sign of her willingness to cooperate in this incestuous scenario. This painting can be compared to Fragonard's The Swing where an older man orchestrates the encounter of two young lovers.[2]
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- Blind Man's Buff (c. 1750)
- The See-Saw (c. 1750)
- Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (1752)
- Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid (1753)
- The Birth of Venus (c. 1753)
- The Storm (c.1759)
- Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe (1765)
- The Swing (c. 1767)
- Fantastical Portraits (1769)
- Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole (c. 1769)
- Les Débuts du modèle (c. 1770)
- A Young Girl Reading (c. 1770)
- The Music Lesson (c. 1770)
- The Raised Chemise (c. 1770)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (1775)
- The Visit to the Nursery (1775)
- The Bolt (1777)
- The Stolen Kiss (c. 1780)
- Marie-Anne Fragonard (wife)
- Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (son)
- Marguerite Gérard (sister-in-law)
- Rococo
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