The Swing

Francisco Goya

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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.