Artist: Fragonard

In addition to the composer study we also do an artist study each term, and I go about finding books in the same way. For artist studies the best books feature one artist, are oversized, and contain lots of big pictures of the artist's work.

This term's artist is Jean-Honore Fragonard and until now I had never heard of this artist before (not really surprising although I did take four years of French in high school and he was a French painter).  Unlike the composer for this term there were not very many resources available at the local libraries. The two books* we are using are:

Jean-Honore Fragonard: Life and Work by Jean-Pierre Cuzin
Jean-Honore Fragonard by Jean Montague Massengale

If books on a particular artist or composer are hard to come by the internet can be a good resource for finding photos or samples of an artist's or composer's work.
I found four good photos of Fragonard's paintings available for viewing on the web:
The Reader (my favorite)
Inspiration 
Blind Man's Bluff 
The Stolen Kiss

*Note: Some of this artist's paintings contain nudity.