The Swing
ArtistJean-Honore Fragonard
Year1767
MediumOil on canvas
LocationWallace Collection, London
About The Swing
The quintessential Rococo painting of aristocratic pleasure. A young woman on a swing kicks her shoe toward a hidden lover. An older man pulls the swing unaware. The lush garden setting is deliberately artificial. Fragonard painted it in just a few weeks.
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