with love, the swing
I dare to say that this is my favourite painting, not only from the rococo-era, but in the history of art.
I love it so much so, that I have it as my browser background.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ’The swing’ (1767)
I can’t give this painting a fair description, so I will leave it to these websites and youtube-videos:
Video: Art Deco – This painting isn’t as innocent as it seems, here’s why.
Video: Smart History – Everything you need to know about Fragonard’s The Swing.
Website: Art in context – The Swing
Website: Artsy.net – Why Fragonard’s The Swing is a masterpiece of Rococo Art.
Other paintings I’ve written about:
The birth of Venus
Portrait of a black woman
Judith beheading Holofernes
The execution of Lady Jane Gray
The Piazza San Marco