The Swing
The Swing
- Artist
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- Artist Dates
- 1732-1806
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Title
- The Swing
- Date
- c. 1775/1780
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 215.9 x 185.5 cm (85 x 73 1/16 in)
- K Number
- K2050
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.9.17
- Notes
Provenance
Casimir Perrin, marquis de Cypierre [1783-1844], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Thoré, Paris, 10 March 1845 and day following, no. 52 or 53). possibly marquise de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paris; Camille Groult [1837-1908], Paris, until at least 1889. [1] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); sold February 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [2] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] This painting and its pendant, _Blindman's Buff_ (NGA 1961.9.16) were possibly the two Fragonards sold from the Montesquiou-Fezensac collection prior to its 1897 sale (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 19 March 1897); see Colin Eisler, _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian_, Oxford, 1977: 331 n. 17. Camille Groult was given as the owner of the paintings in publications of 1889 and 1927. However, the latter publication must have meant Groult was a former owner, as he died in 1908; although it is possible the painting was inherited by his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951). The painting was not included in the 21 March 1952 sale of the Groult collection. [2] The bill of sale (copy in NGA curatorial files) is dated February 10, 1954, and was for a total of fourteen paintings; payments by the Foundation continued to March 1957.