Celebrate the Frick’s famed Progress of Love series by Jean-Honoré Fragonard with an elegant set of notepads that capture the four stages of love: The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned, and Love Letters. Inside each cover is a different personification of love: Love Pursuing a Dove, Love the Avenger, Love the Jester, and Love the Sentinel. Each notepad is crafted with gilded edging in a gift box with a grosgrain interior ribbon, bringing a touch of romance and luxury to the set and making it an exquisite gift.
Four large canvases are at the heart of the cycle that is known as The Progress of Love, painted by Fragonard for Madame du Barry, Louis XV’s last mistress. In the four stages of love’s progress the couple advances from a flirtatious proposal (The Pursuit) to a secretive rendez-vous (The Meeting) to marriage (The Lover Crowned) and the peaceful enjoyment of a happy union (Love Letters). Fragonard in later years completed the series, including the four personifications of different kinds of love as overdoors.
Gift boxed set of 4 notepads, measures 7.25 x 4.88 x 1.75 in.
Each notepad measures 6.25 x 4.25 x .88 in.
Unruled paper