The Swing (other)
The Swing may refer to: * ''The Swing'' (Fragonard), oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767 * ''The Swing'' (Renoir), oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 * ''The Swing'' (INXS album), 1984, also its title track, 1984 * "The Swing" (song), a song recorded by James Bonamy, 1997 * "The Swing", a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' See also *Swing (other) Swing or swinging may refer to: Apparatus * Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and forth * Pendulum, an object that swings * Russian swing, a swing-like circus apparatus * Sex swing, a type of harness for sexual intercourse * Swing r ...

The Swing (Fragonard)
''The Swing'' (french: L'Escarpolette), also known as ''The Happy Accidents of the Swing'' (french: Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best-known work. Description The painting depicts an elegantly dressed young woman on a swing. A smiling young man, hiding in the bushes below and to the left, points towards her billowing dress with hat in hand. A smiling older man, who is nearly hidden in the shadows on the right, propels the swing with a pair of ropes, as a small white dog barks nearby. The lady is wearing a bergère hat (shepherdess hat), as she flings her shoe with an outstretched left foot. Two statues are present, one of a ''putto'', who watches from above the young man on the left with its finger in front of its lips, the other of two ''putti'' is on the right beside the ...
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