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Panel of ornament with Eight Figures and a Swing [La Voltigeuse], after Jean-Antoine Watteau
Panel of ornament with Eight Figures and a Swing [La Voltigeuse], after Jean-Antoine Watteau

Panel of ornament with Eight Figures and a Swing [La Voltigeuse], after Jean-Antoine Watteau

Primary (Orléans, France, 1695–Paris, France, 1772)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1725
MediumEtching
DimensionsSheet: 25 3/16 × 18 1/4 in. (63.9 × 46.3 cm)
Additional Dimension: 23 5/16 × 15 5/8 in. (59.2 × 39.7 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Jack S. Blanton Curatorial Endowment Fund, 2008
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2008.144
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Label Text
A young woman on a swing was a recurring element in Watteau’s designs for decoration. La Voltigeuse, known only through Huquier’s etching, is the best known. With its bucolic setting, billowing skirts and soaring sensation, the swing would flourish as an image of happy eroticism in eighteenth-century French art.
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