Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
The Swing
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A young woman on a garden swing in a striped dress, her companions clustered around her, sunlight in coin-shaped patches across the gravel. Painted in the same Montmartre garden as Bal du Moulin de la Galette.
Up to 37 × 48 in · portrait
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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Swing
The Swing is an oil-on-canvas painting made in the summer of 1876 by the French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The painting depicts model Jeanne Samary, Norbert Goeneutte, and Renoir's brother Edmond. The painting combines eighteenth-century techniques with modern elements.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
All Pierre-Auguste Renoir prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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