The Swing Francisco Goya Original Title: El columpio Date: 1779 Style: Romanticism Genre: genre painting Media: oil, canvas Dimensions: 165 x 260 cm
This cartoon, the pair to The Washerwomen (P-786), depicts three women and four elegantly dressed children with their dog on a country outing. Goya masterfully utilizes the figures in different planes to establish relations between foreground and background, with the shepherds´ glances answered by the woman whose back is to the viewer. The peaceful everyday country scene thus becomes a representation of a date between the nurses and their suitors. This was a tapestry cartoons for the antechamber to the Prince and Princess of Asturias´ bedroom at the El Pardo Palace.
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