Le Taureau blanc à l'étable.

third quarter of the 18th century (c. 1761–1765) · Painting

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Musée du Louvre

Paris, France

Room929, Aile Sully, Niveau 2

On public display.

Checked: 7 days ago
In this state since: Sep 26, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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Accession number: RF 1976 10

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Image: Musée du Louvre — © 2015 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Franck Raux

Meanwhile, in the life of Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The whole life

1760
Travels through Italy with Hubert Robert
Together with Hubert Robert he traveled across Italy, making numerous sketches of the local scenery. In the romantic gardens with their fountains, grottoes, temples and terraces, Fragonard found the imagery he would later embody in his art.
c. 1761
Studio in the Louvre
On his return to Paris he received a studio in the Louvre palace, where he lived, and was put in charge of the decoration of the Galerie d'Apollon.
April 1761
Return to France via Venice and southern Italy
Having lived in Rome until April 1761, he left the Eternal City with his patron the Abbé de Saint-Non and Hubert Robert: he visited Florence, Bologna and Venice, where he studied Tiepolo, made a journey to southern Italy, and returned to France.
1765
"Coresus and Callirhoe" at the Salon: admission to the Academy
He exhibited at the Paris Salon the painting "Coresus and Callirhoe" (now in the Louvre), for which the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture admitted him as a member. Diderot devoted a lavish panegyric to it, and the king bought the painting and ordered it reproduced at the Gobelins manufactory.
second half of the 1760s
Abandoning history painting for "gallant scenes"
Despairing of attaining the position of first painter in the classical genre, he abandoned it for erotic genre scenes, which enjoyed the greatest success at the court of Louis XV. He soon became a fashionable artist — a master of pastoral landscapes, female portraits and small-format "cabinet pictures."