The Cascade, ca. 1775, Oil on wood, 11 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (29. 2 x 24. 1 cm), Paintings, Jean Honore Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732?1806 Paris), In 1756, having won the Prix de Rome, Fragonard departed for four years at the French academy in that city. Of his route from Paris we know nothing, but on the return journey he traveled by way of Florence to Venice, west to Marseilles, and north through Lyons