Le Billet Doux. The Love Letter by Jean Honoré Fragonard

Love Letter, Billet Doux,  Fragonard, Rococo, France,
Le Billet Doux. Fragonard, early 1770s

Le Billet Doux

(The Love Letter early 1770s). 18th century French school

Here we see Fragonard in his phase of sentimental recorder of love-scenes so typical of the art of Louis the Fifteenth’s day.

Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). .

Source: Fragonard by Haldane Macfall (1860-1928). Publisher London: T. C. & E. C. Jack; New York: F. A. Stokes, 1909.

Illustration, damasks, ornament
Note:  Second half of the 18th Century. Fashion of the Rococo.

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