The Jean-Claude Richard, Abbot of Saint-Non, Dressed à l'Espagnole is a painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard conserved at the National Art Museum of Catalonia, in Barcelona, from c.
He is dressed à l'espagnole, an expression which in eighteenth-century France was used to refer to picturesque or fancy attire, and had no bearing on the Spanish fashions of the time.
In fact, dress à l'espagnole was inspired by French fashions from the time of Henry IV and Louis XIII.
The picture is a work from the artist's youth, painted on a trip he made to Italy with his friend and patron Jean-Claude Richard.
Fragonard was one of the last representatives of rococo painting and this work shows his most characteristic style: touches of light material known as 'virtuosity of speed'.