'True genius' of Fragonard revealed after restoration of The Swing

Rococo painting to go back on show at Wallace Collection with greater depth and detail

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing [1767] https://t.co/s1QPZzcnVt

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767

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Thomas Paliser Russell (21 Nov 1767 Oct 1803 CofI co-founder & leader of U.I.. Executed for part in Robert Emmet’s 1803 rebellion. Remembered in The Man from God Knows Where. 🪦Down Cathedral https://t.co/VszdT0P1ni https://t.co/VCJSHCqE9B

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阿蘇山の映像から直ちに連想されるのはヴェスヴィオ火山の大噴火。ポンペイやヘルクラネウムを埋めた79年のものが特に有名だが、近世にも頻繁に起こり18世紀後半以降たびたび画題にされている。1767年の噴火を描いたWright of Derbyの絵(左)と1868年のそれを描いたAlbert Bierstadtの絵(右)。

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I drew / edited ,,The swing" (1767) into Thoma x Ayaka ( + Aether and Paimon ) because why not

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Portrait of Wilhelmina of Prussia in a medallion with allusions to her marriage to Prince William V on 4 October 1767 in Berlin (Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina), 1767 https://t.co/DLJ9o2szgr

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Happy Fragonard Friday folks!! Celebrating swinging today and the original title of Jean-Honoré's naughty 1767 chef d'oeuvre: The Happy Accidents of the Swing (Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette), a portrait of a baron's mistress (and her shoe).🙂

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"The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767), at

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Costume de sirène pour Mlle Guimard (Le Ballet des sens, Jean-Joseph Mouret)
Dessins et croquis de costumes pour les opéras représentés à Paris et à Versailles de 1739 à 1767
Louis-René Boquet (1717-1814), 1770.
BnF, Département des Manuscrits, Rothschild 1462, n° 93

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Selling these awesome nfts on OS, and some desth heads from

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Painting of the week!
I think you couldn't have never guess it lol, this's the famous painting I hated in high school!

"The Swing", Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767, oil on canvas, London.

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Looking in our prints collection it seems dogs were witness to key RCP events & the dodgier types of physicians practice.
From witnessing the siege of our Warwick Lane home by medical militants in 1767 to featuring in satirical cartoons about quack doctors!

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Born on this day: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767-1794) who was a French revolutionary, politician, close friend and most trusted ally of Robespierre, and was instrumental in the Reign of Terror

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The 1767 - Kozokucad Jaw! A mask with the best taste! Wearing it will grant you a tongue able to sense everything and pull it into your maw!

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It is CryptoPunk Sunday in the Mayor White household today. The ape legend that is has let me use CP Thank you so much G, worried I would never be able to play with CP and my brand, can't wait to get creating and pumping this baby.

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “ The Swing” (c.1767)

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“The Swing” (“L'Escarpolette”) or “The Happy Accidents of the Swing” (“Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette”) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767), one of the most iconic Rococo artworks

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