Jean-Honoré Fragonard · c.1777

The Bolt (Le Verrou)

Name: The Bolt (Le Verrou) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Brand: Chromora
SKU: fragonard-the-bolt
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A man in a white shirt and breeches reaches up to slide the bolt of the door with one arm while holding a woman in a yellow gown who turns her face away, beside a rumpled bed under a heavy red curtain, with an apple on a table and fallen roses on the floor. Louvre, Paris.

Up to 20.5 × 16 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

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Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of The Bolt (Le Verrou)

The Bolt (Le Verrou) is an oil on canvas of 73.5 x 93.5 cm. It was commissioned around 1773 by the collector Louis-Gabriel Véri-Raionard, Marquis de Véri, and was conceived with two companion canvases (The Armoire and The Contract) as a sequence about stages of a love affair. It entered the Louvre in 1974 as RF 1974-2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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