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Jean-Honore Fragonard was in Grasse, France, on the 5th of April in 1732. His

father was a merchant. When Jean was six, he moved with his family to Paris. There he

fell in love with painting. In 1756 Fragonard attended a French academy in Rome. Jean

studied under many artists, but the main three were Jean Baptiste, Simeon Chardin, and

Carle Van Loo. Most of his paintings were sold to nobility. In 1789, when the French
Revolution broke out; Jean’s career was destroyed because the nobles could no longer

pay his salary. After the Revolution, Fragonard’s lighter, pastel style and his aristocratic

subjects were looked down upon. Fragonard didn’t adjust to the new painting styles, so

he died a poor man in Paris on August 22nd, 1806.

Jean Fragonard was a painter during the Rococo period. The painting Diana and

Endymion was painted in 1753. The painting contains a cupid, two sheep, a dog,

Endymion, and Diana. The two sheep and the dog...