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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Swing
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (artist)
French, 1732 - 1806
The Swing, probably c. 1765
oil on canvas
overall: 215.9 x 185.5 cm (85 x 73 1/16 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1961.9.17
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Boucher and Fragonard
Object 4 of 8

Exhibition History

1961
Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1961-1962, no. 179, 180, repro.
1987
Fragonard, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988, no. 163.
1988
The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 80, fig. 165.

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