ID: 700008341 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008341	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Making Fritters (drawing (visual work); Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French painter and draftsman, 1732...; ca. 1782; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 2012.4;)

Note: Throughout much of his career, Fragonard avidly depicted scenes of family life. In compositions filled with mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, servants, and pets, he almost invariably depicted families as happy, wholesome, and playful. Fragonard's many depictions of blissful family life are very much in the spirit of Jean Jacques Rousseau's strong advocation of the family as the bedrock of morality and of man's natural state.In this rollicking scene, a large family throbs with pleasure and anticipation as a woman (the mother?) leans over the fire, making beignets. No fewer than five babies struggle over, stare at, and steal the hot treats. Fragonard deftly uses the white of the paper to evoke the cozy light and heat of the fire as it illuminates the beignet maker's face and forefront. The only stable and patient presence is the little spaniel dog with its eyes trained on the cooking pan. The drawing owes much of its dynamism and pulsing sense of form to Fragonard's unique style of drawing, whereby he lays down a swift tangle of graphite lines followed by the dynamic application of gradations of loose brown wash. The wash often doesn't follow the graphite and allows it to show through, thereby creating two inter-connected layers of dynamic media.

Titles:

Making Fritters (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Les Beignets (Making Fritters) (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1782

Creator Display:

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French painter and draftsman, 1732-1806) [preferred,JPGM]

painter Fragonard, Jean Honore (French painter and draftsman, 1732-1806) [500115329]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2012.4

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Brush and brown ink over graphite

	brushes (implements) [300024760]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, <surface working and finishing equipment>, <surface working and finishing tools and accessories>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 24.6 x 37.5 cm (9 11/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Rococo [300021155] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	family (kinship group) [300055474]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, kinship groups) (AAT)

	eating (physical and mental activities) [300375120]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	cook [300248012]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in crafts and trades>, <people in crafts and trades by product>) (AAT)

	dog (species) [300250130]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT)

	socializing [300379719]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, social functions) (AAT)

	human beings (agents) [300024979]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	children (people by age group) [300025945]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by age group>, youth (people)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Making Fritters	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Les Beignets (Making Fritters)	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM,VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)