The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.
as Honoré Fragonard
as Cyprien Fragonard
as Marianne
as Salmon d'Anglas
as Saint-Julien
as Father Rudolphe
as Madame Dantes
as Bourgela
as « La Poicard »
as Steward
as Dame de la Poupliniere
as Antoinette
as Louis-David
as Bernadette's father
as Anatomist
as Anatomist
as Tragedian
as Lisette
as Aristocrat
as Washerwoman
as Anatomist
as Anatomist
as Young actress
as Tavern girl
as Tavern girl
as Washerwoman
as Washerwoman
as Washerwoman
as Washerwoman
as Washerwoman
as Washerwoman
as Picture dealer
as Mandrin
as Aristocrat
as Juggler from the Plume circus
as Juggler from the Plume circus
as Dying woman