The Stolen Kiss – Hermitage Museum The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard from the State Hermitage Museum is an oil on canvas painting
Museum Introduction
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is the largest museum of arts and culture in the world and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collection consists of six buildings, five of which are open to the public, that include over three million items, with only a small portion remaining on permanent display. Among the top collections at the museum are the Western European Art collection that includes art from the 13th to 20th centuries displayed in about 120 rooms, Egyptian antiquities, classical antiquities that occupy the main floors of two of the buildings, Prehistoric art that ranges in dates from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, and Italian Renaissance with the rooms designed in the revival style and featuring the works of Giorgione, Titian, da Vinci, and Veronese.
If you do the virtual tour of the museum, you start in the opulent former main gallery that is now the Jordan Gallery in the Winter Palace. You then move to the main staircase of the Winter Palace which leads …show more content…
Along with the three Fragonard paintings, you will also find multiple paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, these paintings are grouped together because both French artists were well known portraitists from the Rococo period. The Stolen Kiss was acquired by the museum in 1895 and is painted with oil on canvass which created a “smooth, enamel-like surface of the painting, the blended brushstrokes [were] used to convey the details so precisely.” (The State Hermitage Museum, 2017) The painting is 45x55 cm, is found in a beautiful golden frame, and is painted in the colors that are characteristic of the Rococo period and of Fragonard’s pastoral
Museum Introduction
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is the largest museum of arts and culture in the world and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collection consists of six buildings, five of which are open to the public, that include over three million items, with only a small portion remaining on permanent display. Among the top collections at the museum are the Western European Art collection that includes art from the 13th to 20th centuries displayed in about 120 rooms, Egyptian antiquities, classical antiquities that occupy the main floors of two of the buildings, Prehistoric art that ranges in dates from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age, and Italian Renaissance with the rooms designed in the revival style and featuring the works of Giorgione, Titian, da Vinci, and Veronese.
If you do the virtual tour of the museum, you start in the opulent former main gallery that is now the Jordan Gallery in the Winter Palace. You then move to the main staircase of the Winter Palace which leads …show more content…
Along with the three Fragonard paintings, you will also find multiple paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, these paintings are grouped together because both French artists were well known portraitists from the Rococo period. The Stolen Kiss was acquired by the museum in 1895 and is painted with oil on canvass which created a “smooth, enamel-like surface of the painting, the blended brushstrokes [were] used to convey the details so precisely.” (The State Hermitage Museum, 2017) The painting is 45x55 cm, is found in a beautiful golden frame, and is painted in the colors that are characteristic of the Rococo period and of Fragonard’s pastoral