Alexandre-Evariste FRAGONARD

Born in October 1780 in Grasse, Alexandre-Évariste studied with his father Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jacques-Louis David.

According to Sophie Chauveau, Marguerite Gérard would be her biological mother. He was raised by his father and his wife, Marie-Anne Fragonard, who regarded him as his own son.

He received his first lessons from his father and had, in addition to the art of making the compositions piquant, a great ease. He perfected himself under the direction of Jacques-Louis David who said of him: There is oil in this lamp, and distinguished in both painting and sculpture.

As a painter, he composed:

François I armed knight, Paris, Musée du Louvre ;
François I receiving the Primatice, ceiling for the Louvre Palace in Paris;
Bourgeois de Calais;
Joan of Arc climbing on the lumber;
The Thress reading Jerusalem delivered;
he drew the series of wallpaper Les Mois for Joseph Dufour, October, November, June, September, December, preserved at the Musée des arts Décoratifs de Paris.
A self-portrait in his workshop (slipper on paper) is preserved at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

As a sculptor he was owed the former fronton of the Bourbon Palace in Paris (filled under the Monarchy of July), a Monument in Pichegru in 1829 in Besançon (demolished work), as well as the fountain of the Marché-aux-Carmes (in 1830) installed today square Gabriel-Pierné in Paris 6th.

Died on November 10, 1850 in Paris, he was buried in the cemetery of Montmartre (21st division)