Fragonard By Pierre Rosenberg

Published on the occasion of Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris September 24 1987 January 4 1988 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York February 2 May 8 1988 FragonardBorn in Paris April 13 1936 Pierre Rosenberg studied at the Lyc e Charlemagne in Paris gaining a Law degree and also graduated from the Ecole du Louvre In 1962 he joined the Department of Paintings at the Louvre This is where he made his career starting as an assistant later promoted curator of the heritage at the Department of Paintings In October 1994 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Louvre which had become a public institution in 1992 He left on April 13 2001 From 1981 to 1993 he was also the curator of the National Museum of Franco American Friendship Bl rancourt. After his Focillon scholarship at Yale University in 1961 1962 he was invited to stay at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton 1977 and at the University of Cambridge 1987 as Slade Professor He held the chair of French painting at the Ecole du Louvre in 1970 1971 After a period as President of the French History of Art Society from 1982 1984 he was elected President of the French History of Art Committee in 1984 Since its founding in 1969 he has been part of the editorial board of the Journal Revue de l art He has contributed to XVIIecentury Print Quarterly Artibus et Historiae Museum Management and Curatorship the Revue du Louvre and Burlington Magazine He is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca and the Accademia del Disegno Florence the Accademia Pietro Vanucci Perugia the Ateneo Veneto Venice the Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Venice and Accademia Clementina Bologna He is also an honorary fellow at the Royal Academy London. His work as an art historian focussed essentially on 17th and 18th century French and Italian drawing and painting as well as on the history of collecting He has written over two hundred articles in major journals and contributed to a publication dedicated to art historians of our time: He was elected member of the French Academy on 7 December 1995.