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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 belong to Endymion, who is a shepherd. The cupid boy follows Diana around. Diana is the goddess of the moon and protectress of the hunt. Diana the goddess of the moon and chastity rarely fell in love. One night she was riding cross the blackened sky and noticed a shepherd boy, Edition, asleep under an oak tree. It was love at first sight.
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