File:Nicolas Delaunay - The Swing - 1923.580 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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[edit]The Swing
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| Artist |
Nicolas Delaunay |
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| Title |
The Swing |
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This large print, based on a painting by Fragonard, symbolizes the pleasure-seeking and frivolous aspects of Rococo art. Unbeknownst to the man pushing the swing, a suitor reclining in the bushes gets a glimpse under the woman's skirts as she flies through the air, losing her shoe. Contemporary viewers would have understood the association of the lost shoe with sexual dalliance, a motif reinforced by other elements within the image-such as the cavorting nude figures on the base of the statue of a cupid who gestures "hush." Delaunay's work is extremely successful in translating the qualities of a painting into the more restricted vocabulary of graphic techniques. He masterfully transposed Fragonard's charming composition, retaining all of the movement and verve of the oil. Using a rich variety of hatchings, crosshatchings, and dots, Delaunay conveyed the tonal range, lighting, and spatial effects of the painting remarkably well. |
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| Date | 1782 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | engraving | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1923.580 |
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| Place of creation | France, 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.580 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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