The Swing

La Balançoire

The Swing

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876

Musée d'Orsay

Paris, France

“Renoir shown at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877; one critic dismissed its dappled sunlight effects as resembling "grease stains," while another called his blue "violent."”

Painting Details

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

92 × 73 cm (36.2 × 28.7 in)

Painted at

Paris, France

Current location

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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