article_snippet.sent: Original: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Young Woman .
article_snippet.sent: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
article_snippet.sent: Original: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s
article_snippet.sent: Original: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s
article_snippet.sent: Once thought to be by French artist Jean-Alexis Grimou (1678-1733) on the strength of French artist Jean-Alexis Grimou (1678-1733) signature, closer examination revealed that this was false.
article_snippet.sent: Fragonard's genuine signature,
article_snippet.sent: ‘Frago’, is discernible above, although partially obscured by overpainting.
article_snippet.sent: It is believed Fragonard was paying a playful homage to Grimou, a fellow artist who was well known in France at the time, particularly as a copyist .
article_snippet.sent: Fragonard is thought Fragonard's intent was not to deceive, but rather to excite connoisseurs with amusing visual ambiguity.
highlights_snippet.sent: It was a replica of Jean-Honoré Fragonard