Jean Honoré Fragonard Auction Prices and Value Guide

Jean Honoré Fragonard auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 1,450 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

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Jean Honoré Fragonard auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Jean Honoré Fragonard
Source records
1,450
Market update
2026-02-06

Jean Honoré Fragonard market snapshot

Jean Honoré Fragonard shows developing auction liquidity with 34 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $7,800. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 1 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-07-23.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (18.2% · 4 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (36.4% · 8 sales)
  • $10,000+ (45.5% · 10 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$4,826
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
1
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-07-23

Artist context

About Jean Honoré Fragonard

Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) was a French painter, printmaker, and decorator who became one of the defining figures of the late Rococo era. Born in Grasse and active primarily in Paris, he studied with François Boucher and won the Prix de Rome in 1752, spending several formative years at the French Academy in Rome. Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings across his career, along with numerous drawings, etchings, and decorative interior commissions. His work is celebrated for its technical facility, luminous colour, and scenes of aristocratic leisure imbued with intimacy and playful sensuality. Active during the final decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard's art captured the hedonistic spirit of his age while anticipating the shifts toward Neoclassicism that followed the French Revolution. Today his paintings hang in major museums worldwide, and his name remains central to the study and collecting of 18th-century French art.

Rococooil paintingetchingdrawingprintmakinggenre scenes with intimacy and veiled eroticismaristocratic leisure and pastoral subjectsallegorical and mythological subjects

Common works and media

Collectors and appraisers most commonly encounter Fragonard's oil paintings on canvas or panel depicting genre scenes, pastoral allegories, and aristocratic leisure. His drawings — including red-chalk studies and wash landscapes — appear frequently at auction and in museum collections. Fragonard also produced etchings after his own compositions and those of other artists. Decorative commissions, such as wall panels, overdoors, and interior schemes for private residences, represent another recognised category. Print reproductions and later plates after his designs circulate widely and should be distinguished from lifetime impressions.

Market and appraisal context

Jean Honoré Fragonard's auction market is anchored by 34 recorded lots spanning two decades (2005–2025), with 22 carrying realised prices. The price distribution is extremely wide — from $186 for a print after Tiepolo at Dreweatts to $1,385,000 at the top end — reflecting the broad spectrum from workshop attributions and reproductive prints to fully authenticated oil paintings. The median sits at $7,800, with the interquartile range spanning $1,100 to $85,500, indicating that the middle market is dominated by drawings, prints, and attributed works while fully accepted paintings command six- and seven-figure sums. Christie's and Sotheby's account for the highest-value results, including a Christie's lot at €85,500 and a Sotheby's pair at €72,300 and €133,500 respectively. Mid-tier houses such as Bonhams, Millon & Associés, Koller Auctions, and Tajan handle a mix of drawings and attributed works typically in the €1,500–€20,000 range. Regional houses (Deutsch Auktionen, Vanderkindere, 4-auction, Brunk Auctions, DOYLE) mostly handle circle-of, follower-of, and reproductive prints under €2,000. Liquidity is thin in recent years: only one lot appeared in the trailing twelve months (a Sotheby's drawing at $4,826 in July 2025) and zero in the prior twelve months, suggesting that fully attributed Fragonard works come to market infrequently and are closely contested when they do.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Old Master Paintings
  • Old Master Drawings
  • Old Master Prints
  • Works on Paper
  • Decorative Art

Value drivers

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Appraisal caveats

  • The source pack does not include specific auction-house records or realised price data. Consult major auction-house results (Christie's, Sotheby's) for current market benchmarks.
  • Only five dated paintings are known, so dating and attribution of unsigned works requires specialist expertise. Always seek qualified attribution opinion before appraisal.
  • Decorative interior commissions may be fixed in situ or have site-specific provenance considerations that affect transferability and value.
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Evidence

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Data basis

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Artist value FAQ

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