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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
1906Nolhac, Pierre de. J.-H. Fragonard. Paris, 1905: no. 150
1956Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 242-244, repro. 241, 242, 243
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 76-79, no. 27, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): 66, pl. 149
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 367, repro.
1960Wildenstein, Georges. The Paintings of Fragonard. New York, 1960: no. 447
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 19, color repro. 21.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 187, repro. pl. 179, 180
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 110, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 318, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 52
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:320, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 44, repro.
1972Mandel, Gabriele. L'Opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972: no. 471, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 132, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 329-331, figs. 296, 298.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 86, pl. 74, color repro.
1982Posner, Donald. "The Swinging Women of Watteau and Fragonard." The Art Bulletin LXIV, no. 1:75-88
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 338, no. 457, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 159, repro.
1993Massengale, Jean Montague. Jean-Honoré Fragonard. New York, 1993: 40, repro.

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