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In Grasse, Mallet paints the sweetness of surviving

2022-08-15T16:28:56.180Z


REPORT - The Jean-Honoré Fragonard Museum presents this artist who excelled in genre scenes and pleasant anecdotes.


Special correspondent in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes)

This is advice to give to a director who would like to stage Mozart's operas: rush to Grasse, to the Jean-Honoré Fragonard Museum, to admire the canvases and gouaches of Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759-1835), reminiscent of

Cosi Fan Tutte

, the

Marriage of Figaro

or

Don Giovanni

.

With great shrewdness and intelligence, this artist, a compatriot of Fragonard and friend of Prud'hon, hides strange details in his seemingly charming and light scenes: statues taken from his imagination quiver under the foliage, as if animated in unison the love affairs that take place in the evening in the parks, a young woman harassed by an enterprising boy grabs a bell on a table to call for help, the ribbons tremble, the hairstyles capsize...

Mallet excelled in genre scenes, pleasant anecdotes brilliantly executed, hence his reputation as a sometimes insipid painter.

It is actually daring: the

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Source: lefigaro

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