Honoré Fragonard

Honoré Fragonard

Honoré Fragonard (June 13, 1732 - April 5, 1799) was a French anatomist, now remembered primarily for his remarkable collection of "écorchés" (flayed figures) in the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort.

Fragonard was born in Grasse as cousin to painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. After studying surgery, in 1759 he obtained his license and in 1762 was recruited by Claude Bourgelat, founder of the world's first veterinary school in Lyon. There Fragonard began to make his first anatomical exhibits. In 1765 Louis XV initiated a veterinary school in Paris, first resident at rue Sainte Appoline but in 1766 moving to the suburb of Alfort (today Maisons-Alfort). There Fragonard served as the school's first professor of anatomy for six years, preparing thousands of anatomical pieces, but was expelled in 1771 as a madman. He subsequently continued to prepare dissections in his home, gaining income by selling his works to the aristocracy.

Fragonard was careful in his dissections and preserved the results via means never divulged, but which may have been based on those of Jean-Joseph Sue. His pieces were often prepared for theatrical effect rather than scientific exhibition, as can be seen in the surviving pieces in the Musée Fragonard d'Alfort. In 1793, along with his cousin, he became a member of the Jury national des arts, and in the following year the Commission temporaire des arts. In this position he collected his work at Alfort for an envisioned Office National d'Anatomie; but it never materialized and most of his work was dispersed. Despondent, he subsequently was named director of anatomy at the newly-created École de Santé de Paris, but passed away in Charenton on April 5, 1799.

See also

* Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière

References

* Yvonne Poulle-Drieux, "Honoré Fragonard et le cabinet d'anatomie de l'École d'Alfort pendant la Révolution", "Review d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications", 15 (1962), page 153.
* Jonathan Simon, "Honoré Fragonard, anatomical virtuoso", in "Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment", edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008.
* Marc Mammerickx, "Claude Bourgelat, avocat des vétérinaires", 1971.
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