The Swing

Rococo

Boucher, Fragonard and the boudoir

Colour, flesh and private rooms, 1739–1778

Boucher, court painter to Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour's preferred painter, and Fragonard after him made the Rococo a private art, scaled to the rooms people actually lived in.

  • Colour and flesh in Boucher's mythologies
  • The interior and the patron who paid for it
  • Fragonard's commissions from the court's private side
  • Light, speed and drama in the late Rococo

Image: Wikimedia Commons (image of the painting after its 2021 conservation, The Wallace Collection) · Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

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