Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- proper noun
- The playful and romantic scenes in Jean-Honoré Fragonard's paintings reflect the spirit of 18th-century France.
Examples
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Many art historians consider Jean-Honoré Fragonard a master of the Rococo movement.
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Did you know Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted 'The Swing'?
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At the museum, we admired several works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the European art gallery.
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Many people admire Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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At the museum, we admired several works by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the European art gallery.
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Many art historians consider Jean-Honoré Fragonard a master of the Rococo movement.
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The playful and romantic scenes in Jean-Honoré Fragonard's paintings reflect the spirit of 18th-century France.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jean-Honoré + Fragonard
This is a proper name whose meaning (the identity and biographical fact that he was a French Rococo painter) is referential rather than compositional; the constituents 'Jean-Honoré' and 'Fragonard' carry no lexical definitions here to indicate profession or dates. Proper names are arbitrary across languages and must be learned or supplied by context, so a B1 learner knowing the name parts would not be able to derive the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was an 18th-century French painter famous for light, playful pictures of lovers in gardens and elegant rooms. Because his work looks joyful, romantic, and full of movement, his name now reminds people of the happy, decorative style called 'Rococo'.
