Jean honore fragenard was an extraordinarily skilful painter and a master of the ricoco style. His popularity piqued in the eighteenth century just before the french revolution. Ricoco paintings were opulent, colorful, flowery, often playful and slightly augty or erotic. Rokoco henceforth became de classe. Most art critics either dismiss or ignore it, despite the indisputable skill of an artist like fragonard. Flora uknovitch knew this was not the kind of painting an aspiring artist should admire. But when she came across his most famous work again nearly a decade after first seeing it, yukanovitch had a different response to