#1767

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Christoph Jacob Trew. Tabulae osteologicae. 1767.

National Library of Medicine

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Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) by Louis-Michel van Loo. Musée du Louvre.

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O balanço, 1767, Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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The Swing (1767) 🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard 🏛️ The Wallace Collection 📍 London, England

The painting is Fragonard's most famous work, and one of the most emblematic images of eighteenth-century art. Its genesis is reported by the writer Charles Collé. According to his journals and memoirs for 1767, the history painter Gabriel-François Doyen was commissioned by an unnamed ‘gentleman of the Court’ late in 1767 to paint his young mistress on a swing, pushed by a bishop with himself admiring her legs from below. Doyen, who had just had a major success at the Salon as a religious history painter, refused and suggested Fragonard. Fragonard was at that time about to completely change his career from a history painter with important royal commissions to a painter of small and highly sophisticated cabinet pictures. This was at least in part a reaction to his problems with payments from the royal arts administration. The commission might have in part triggered that change or might simply have come at the right moment.The painting marks the re-launch of Fragonard's career with paintings for a small, well-informed circle. Those could either be highly erotic works, like P430, or works that required an advanced knowledge of art history and old master painting. Fragonard's move was highly successful.

Compared with the original brief, in the finished painting, the older man is no longer a priest, a barking dog has been added, and Falconet's sculpture of 'L'amour menaçant (Menacing Love)' comments on the story. Fragonard answers the libertine intentions of his patron by picking a Rococo style. Fragonard often employed different styles or languages at the same time, and he seems to have seen a Rococo idiom as particularly apt for an erotic scene. This move has fundamentally shaped perceptions of Rococo art. With Fragonard's famous work, the style changed its associations. Fragonard combines a backward-looking Rococo element with a pre-Romantic rendering of a forceful and uncontrollable, often obscene nature.

The name of the work derives from an engraving by Nicolas de Launay after the painting that was published in 1782. It has been used as a template for countless caricatures and is increasingly popular with contemporary artists and designers.

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Marbled Monday

Today we bring you two official documents from King Charles III of Spain from 1767—the first was published April 4 and the second on July 5. These documents pertain to the settlement of six thousand Catholic Flemish and German settlers in Sierra Morena. Both are certified by Don Ignacio Esteban de Higareda, advisor to the king. Both documents were printed in the Office of Don Antonio Sanz, official printer of the king and his counsel. 

The marbling is one of my favorites that I’ve seen—a fantasy pattern in purple, red, and cream. Something particularly interesting (to me, anyway!) is the evidence of light damage on the marbling, especially on the back of the first book shown here (the third image). You can see that the top of the book has been bleached quite light, while the left side has been bleached slightly less and the right side is still its original color. From this we can tell something about how the book has been stored—there was most likely a smaller book or bookend in front of it near a window or other light source for quite some time, causing the top to bleach while the bottom stayed bright! At some point, an even smaller book blocked just the bottom right side, causing the left side to bleach a bit as well. These are not the original bindings for these documents (our best guess is that these are 20th century bindings) and evidence of light damage can be seen on all sides of the covers shown here.

All of our books here in Special Collections are kept in darkened spaces for the most part—we only turn the lights on when a person is in the stacks and needs to see! This helps prevent light damage like you see here. If you have special books you want to keep looking nice, we recommend keeping them in the dark!

View more Marbled Monday posts. 

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The swing, 1767. Wallace Collection, London.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, El columpio, 1767. Wallace Collection, Londres.

Wikipedia (English / Español)

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Peach Pink Silk Robe à la Française, 1765-1775.

Augusta Auctions.

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El columpio(L'escarpolette),Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1767

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The only two photographs ever taken of Andrew Jackson (1845)

Born on this day: March 15, 1767.

Died: June 8, 1845 (age 78 years), in Nashville, TN

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In case anyone is unaware, this is a great parody of The Swing, which was painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in 1767 (see below).

I have included a note on the original painting and a couple of other parodies included below the cut.

There is also a parody of The Swing in Frozen, which can be seen hanging to the right of the doors in the gallery in “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” and “For the First Time in Forever”, and in more detail (even though I needed to edit two screenshots into one photo to get a fuller picture) when she imitates the sitters’ poses during the latter. The reason for making a parody rather than using the original becomes obvious when you consider the animation style and, more specifically, the incredibly risqué nature of the original painting, especially once one considers what clothing a young lady of the 18th century would have worn (or, if still you aren’t following, what she would not have been wearing, i.e. underwear as we know it today).

Another great parody is the humorous A Different Swing by Kate Beaton.

I'm genuinely tweaking rn, look at this

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Release: May 10, 2024

Lyrics:

The first day of spring, the city's feelin' brand new

No shade at Pitti, the people spillin' out

I can't believe I haven't thought about you (about you)

Open the streets, no lookin' in the rearview

60 degrees, but we can take it all

I can't believe I haven't thought about you (about you)

It's time to leave, you went cold as winter

And with one final breeze, both of you let go of me

I'm startin' to see

Everythin' looks better now

Replacing the scenes

Done self-deprecating 'til I burst at the seams

It's all feelin' different, but I know that it's me

And everything feels better now

I can't believe

I can't believe (I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe I'm doin' better now)

Called all my friends that I could fit in one room

Testin' my speakers like they have never been used

Now I can breathe when I think about you (think about you)

It's gettin' late, and I've been drinkin' for two

Shelvin' the memories I recall about you

Now I can breathe when I think about you (think about you)

It's time to leave, you went cold as winter

And with one final breeze, both of you let go of me

I'm startin' to see

Everything looks better now

Replacing the scenes

Done self-deprecating 'til I burst at the seams

It's all feelin' different, but I know that it's me

And everything feels better now

Songwriter:

I can't believe

I can't believe (I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe, I can't believe)

(I can't believe I'm doin' better now)

Andrew Taggart / Emily Warren / Alex Pall / Megan Bulow / Ryan Raines

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Thought and sayings rubber stamps.

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📜⠀Título: El columpio. 👨🏻‍🎨⠀Autor: Jean-Honoré Fragonard. 🗓️⠀Datación: 1767. 🎨⠀Estilo: Rococó. 🌍⠀Ubicación: Colección Wallace, Londres, Reino Unido. 📏⠀Medidas: 81× 65 cm. 🔖⠀Género: escena de género. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🎬⠀ Aparece en: Frozen (2013). Dirigida por Chris Buck y Jennifer Lee.