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606:Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard
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154:Background and content
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494:Fantastical Portraits
390:Jean-Honoré Fragonard
146:. Eighteenth-century
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600:Marie-Anne Fragonard
526:A Young Girl Reading
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19:For other uses, see
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