# The Swing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FRAGONARD, Jean-Honoré]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 120 x 95 cm ## Commentary This painting was executed during or just after the period in which Fragonard was a pupil of Boucher, whose influence is apparent both in its subject matter and technique. Years later, Fragonard would paint another work with the same title but of a very different character, in which the subject's eroticism is made obvious. That painting \(now in the Wallace Collection, London\) has become one of his most famous. You can view <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=The+AND+%28Swing&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Representations+of+the+motif+The+Swing'\)" HREF="/cgi-bin/search.cgi?author=&title=The+AND+%28Swing&comment=&time=any&school=any&form=any&type=any&location=&header=0&other=0&caption=Representations+of+the+motif+The+Swing">other representations</A> of the motif "The Swing." ## Related artworks - [A Boy as Pierrot]() - [A Game of Horse and Rider]() - [A Game of Hot Cockles]() - [A Young Girl Reading]() - [A Young Girl Sleeping]() - [A Young Scholar]() - [Abbé de Saint-Non \(Fanciful Figure\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Blindman's Buff \(detail\)]() - [Blindman's Buff]() - [Coresus Sacrificing himself to Save Callirhoe]() - [Cypresses in the Garden Avenue of the Villa]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()