Lecture
Patrick Bade
Wednesday 23.11.2022
Patrick Bade
From Watteau to Fragonard
Wednesday 23.11.2022
Summary
Patrick Bade discusses the art and artists that set the tone of the Ancien Regime, namely Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806).
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
No, I don’t think it, until, I think now that the Wallace Collection has managed to break its rules that it, before, it could never lend a picture. So the Wallace Collection was not allowed to lend pictures. So I don’t think the Fragonard “Swing” has ever been in the National Gallery.
Oh my God, that’s a whole lecture. You have the color, the curving lines, the frothiness. I could go on and on and on about that.