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The Love Letter, early 1770s

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Oil on canvas

Provenance: Galerie Kraemer
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

La Lettre d'amour, Fragonard, 1770. Métropolitan Muséum of Art, NY.

This painting should not be read as a portrait, but as a genre scene that takes up a key eighteenth-century theme, the love letter, in which the appreciation of the work is as much about how Fragonard paints as what he depicts.