Les Deux Fragonard

The name of painter JeanHonore Fragonard 17321806 is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life indoors and out He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy In this story he and his brother Cyprien Robin Renucci who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them have fallen in love with the same woman Marianne Philippine LeroyBeaulieu a laundress This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon dAnglas Sami Frey a conniving nobleman who has his heart set on getting revenge on JeanHonore Joachim de Almeida for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court