18th century European garden adorned with marble statues, flowers and bushes. A man is sketching a woman holding a crown made of flowers on top of a man's head. The woman looks away while she wears a yellow dress and has a garland of flowers wrapped around her. The man next to her wears a red garment and looks up in direction to the crown.

Notepad Gilded Lover Crowned

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Celebrate the Frick’s famed Progress of Love series by Jean-Honoré Fragonard with an elegant notepad that depicts the marriage of the figures, The Lover Crowned, and inside the cover, Love the Jester. Crafted with gilded edging, this notepad makes an elegant and delightful 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 secret rendez-vous (The Meeting), and then on to The Lover Crowned and the peaceful enjoyment of a happy union (Love Letters). Fragonard in later years completed the series, including four personifications of different kinds of love as overdoors: Love Pursuing a Dove, Love the Avenger, Love the Jester, and Love the Sentinel.

Notepad measures 6.25 x 4.25 x .38 in.

Unruled paper

Boxed Set of 4 also available