La Balançoire
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876
The story
The Swing is an oil-on-canvas painting made in the summer of 1876 by the French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The painting depicts model Jeanne Samary, Norbert Goeneutte, and Renoir's brother Edmond. The painting combines eighteenth-century techniques with modern elements.
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Date
- 1876
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 92 × 73 cm
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