# Invocation to Love, in Jean Honoré Fragonard

Jean Honoré Fragonard drew this in about 1781, aged about 44. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Fragonard used gardens as the setting for love and courtship in some of his most important works. One such scene, this drawing depicts a woman pleading for help from a statue of Eros, the god of love.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1781
- Medium: Brush and brown wash with graphite squaring lines and underdrawing on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 33.5 x 41.6 cm (13 3/16 x 16 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 37.6 x 47.8 cm (14 13/16 x 18 13/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1943.657
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Honoré Fragonard](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-honore-fragonard), French, 1732–1806

Fragonard studied with Chardin and then Boucher, won the Prix de Rome and spent five years in Italy, where he drew the gardens of the Villa d’Este.

6 works in the collection.

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