La Bascule (The Swing)
Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet, French, 1731 - 1797
after Jean Honore Fragonard, French, 1732 - 1806
1760
Engraving on wove paper
Proof before all letters
Image: 15 9/16 × 11 5/16 in. (39.5 × 28.8 cm)
Plate: 17 11/16 × 12 1/4 in. (44.9 × 31.1 cm)
Sheet: 17 15/16 × 12 7/16 in. (45.5 × 31.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund
PR.997.30.1
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Course History
HIST 47, The French Revolution, Darrin McMahon, Spring 2019
History 47.02, The French Revolution, Darrin McMahon, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Love and Play: A Pair of Paintings by Fragonard, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, January 24-May 4, 2014.
Provenance
Arsene Bonafous-Murat, Paris, France; sold to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Portalis and Beraldi 10
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