This series of paintings concludes with a work depicting a couple courting each other next to a pile of letters. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this cycle of four paintings originally commissioned for an estate at Louveciennes (“LOO-vuh-see-ehn”). One work in this series shows a woman in a yellow dress crowning a half-reclining man with a floral wreath.
ANSWER: Progress of Love
[10e] The Progress of Love cycle was created by this Rococo artist, whose other paintings of flirting couples include Blindman’s Buff and The Swing.
ANSWER: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
[10m] This sculptor’s works, including Mischievous Cupid, provided the basis of the watchful statues in some of Fragonard’s paintings of loving couples. This sculptor also created a work that used the 1,250-ton Thunder Stoneas a pedestal.
ANSWER: Étienne Maurice Falconet
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