# Invocation to Love, in Drawings

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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