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The Swing (Goya)

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The scene takes place in the countryside, where three maids are swinging happily while the children they look after are enjoying themselves. The presence of ostentatious clothes on the children is noteworthy, an unmistakable symbol that they belong to the aristocracy. While the children are having
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The children receive most of the illumination, as the twilight focuses on them and their clothes. Goya enhances the stain-like effect by applying a rapid brushstroke that years later would be the genesis of the
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With his peculiar spelling, the Aragonese artist described the painting as "a family who have gone out to the country to enjoy themselves, four children and three maids, one of whom is swinging on a rope".
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fun, one of them swings the maid and another maid holds the youngest child. In the background, a carriage made of blurred spots can be seen, and three shepherds with their flocks complete the scene.
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It may also be an ambiguous message, representing a meeting between the wet-nurses and the shepherds. This can be deduced from the gazes of the men and the woman with their backs turned.
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The woman who prevents the girl from walking is not dressed as a servant but as a courtesan. She is possibly a wealthy aristocrat who dresses like a
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as an allegory of the three ages of life, through the children (childhood), the women (youth) and the shepherds in the distance (old age).
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The subject of the oil painting is a recurring one in the history of Western art, especially in French painting, with
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Unfortunate events in the front seats of the ring of Madrid, and the death of the mayor of TorrejĂłn
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Francisco de Goya: los cartones para tapices y los comienzos de su carrera en la Corte de Madrid
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The Victorious Hannibal Seeing Italy from the Alps for the First Time
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Consecration of Aloysius Gonzaga as Patron Saint of Youth
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Francisco de Goya
Movement
Museo del Prado
Madrid
Spanish
tapestry cartoon designed by Francisco de Goya
Palace of El Pardo
Museo del Prado
Boucher
Fragonard
Rococo
Black Paintings
Rembrandt
VelĂĄzquez
ISBN
978-84-674-3810-9
ISBN
978-84-95452-46-7
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84-376-1192-X
"Cartones para tapices"
ISBN
84-305-9689-5
Analysis of The Swing on the official Prado Museum website
Details of the painting on artehistoria.com
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