Jean-Honoré Fragonard · 1767

The Swing

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Fragonard's frothy Rococo escapade — a young woman swinging in a frilled gown, slipper flying, while her lover hides in the bushes. The 18th century at its most charming and risqué.

Up to 8 × 10 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

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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Hand-printed in Ottawa

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of The Swing

The Swing, also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing, is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best-known work.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Frequently asked

The Swing— questions & answers

›What is the story behind Fragonard's The Swing?

Painted in 1767, it is the Rococo's most famous escapade — a young woman in a frilled gown swings so freely her slipper flies off, while her lover watches from the bushes below. Charming, theatrical, and deliberately risqué for its day.

›Can I buy a The Swing canvas print in Canada?

Yes — Chromora prints Fragonard's The Swing on museum-quality archival cotton canvas, hand-finished in Ottawa and shipped across Canada and the US. A single print over $50 CAD ships free in Canada (over $100 USD in the US).

›Where is the original The Swing?

The original is held at the Wallace Collection in London.

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