Monday, August 18, 2025

The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767)

Ah ... the joys of life ... 

There is a wonderful intensity of colours. Soft, yet bright and vivid. Her pink dress almost like a glowing sun in a haunted forest with the men blending into the foliage. 

While the gentleman’s lascivious look is plain, her own is a slightly inscrutable? 

What is incredible is the artistic illusion of depth in the painting - which the swing occupies despite the branches making it impossible.

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Extra:

Great write-up at My Daily Art Display.

5 comments:

  1. I like the painting; she is having the time of her life on that swing.

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  2. Oh, I don't think her expression is inscrutable at all, LOL. Nothing inscrutable about the symbolism of her pink dress with its frilliness and folds either.

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    1. Oh really?
      I don't think she really is smiling, with her raised eyebrow.
      You don't think so?

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  3. The lighting is very good and the colour of her dress gorgeous but of course her fortune is balanced on her youth and beauty - sadly.

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