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Fantastical Portraits

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The Fantastical Portraits or Fantasy Portraits (French: Portraits de fantaisie) are a series of portraits by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, mostly dating to 1769. It is said that each was executed in a single hour, from which they gained the Italian name fa' presto (made quickly).

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  • Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Paris, Somogy, 1987, 1e éd., pp. 57-58 (French) (ISBN 9782850561849)