20 Works, October 26th. is Alexandre Fragonard’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #227
Oct 28, 2021
Saladin à Jerusalem, c. 1830–1850
Oil on canvas
126.5 x 192.5 cm
Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper
After Saladin’s victory at Attin (July 4, 1187), it was Jerusalem’s turn to fall under the blows of the Ayyubid forces. The siege will last from September 20 to October 2, 1187, and will see the Sultan of Egypt and Syria enter the holy city victorious.
Alexandre-Évariste Coccinelle Fragonard (26 October 1780–10 November 1850) was the product of an extremely rich artistic background; he was the son of the great rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the pupil of Jacques-Louis David, and the exact contemporary of J.-A.-D. Ingres. All these influences contributed to his artistic versatility and mastery as well as to the eclipse that his reputation suffered by comparison, and which is only recently being rectified.