Fantastical Portraits
The Fantastical Portraits or Fantasy Portraits (French: Portraits de fantaisie) are a series of portraits by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, mostly dating to 1769. It is said they were executed in a single hour, from which they gained the Italian name fa' presto (made quickly).
- François-Henri d'Harcourt (1769), private collection
- Inspiration (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- Portrait of a man (1769), Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- Portrait of a man, known as The Warrior (circa 1769)
- Portrait of a Woman with a dog (1769), The Metropolitan Museum of Art
References
- Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., 156 p. (ISBN 9782850561849), p. 57 and 58
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