Blank page; verso: Half-length Figure Study c. 1758

Editor: This is "Blank page; verso: Half-length Figure Study" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It's a very faint sketch. What do you make of it? Curator: Consider Fragonard's era: a society structured by rigid hierarchies. This sketch, perhaps a discarded idea, hints at the constraints faced by artists even within the patronage system. It makes me wonder about the unseen labor, the creative choices deemed unworthy. Editor: So, the blank space speaks as much as the sketch itself? Curator: Precisely. It invites us to consider what is absent and whose stories remain untold within art history. Editor: I never thought about it that way before. Thanks!