HISTORY OF ART
The Swing
Painted in 1767, some 20 years before the upheaval and bloodshed of the French Revolution, Fragonard's draws the viewer into a tale of clandestine romance. At the heart of the composition, a beautiful young lady, adorned in a flowing pastel pink dress, swings joyously above the ground, kicking her shoe into the air as her admirer, concealed in the foliage below, gazes up at her with a rapt expression of
