1763
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Little Park (Le petit parc) is a 1763 ink by Jean Honoré Fragonard, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a small, leafy park with a few people walking paths and sitting on benches. Light filters through the trees, making soft shadows. The scene feels quiet, like a moment caught mid-day. Fragonard used etching and drypoint here. That means he scratched lines into metal plates then inked them. The lines look loose, not too precise. You can almost feel the breeze through the park. Try looking up Fragonard’s paintings next.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born on 5 April 1732 in Grasse, the son of a glover, and moved with his family to Paris in 1738.
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