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The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767
Another painter reportedly turned this commission down — a bishop pushing the swing while a nobleman peeks up a lady's skirt being too much for him — so Fragonard took the job instead.
Erisava: Is the soft light hiding what's actually happening here?
Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher, 1759
This was the last in a run of seven portraits the same painter made of her over the years. It hung at Versailles first, then apparently passed down to her brother.
Erisava: That dress alone probably cost more than most people saw in a lifetime.