"The Swing," after Antoine Watteau (Les Agréements de l'été)
1798–1863
Medium
Brush and brown wash over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
8-7/16 x 13 in. (21.4 x 33.0 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jean Douglas Fowles, in memory of Ian Gavin Douglas, 1977
Accession Number
1977.381
Tags
About the Artist
Eugène Delacroix|Antoine Watteau · 1798–1863
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) stands as the defining figure of French Romanticism and a pivotal bridge to modernism. Born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice near Paris, he came from distinguished lineage—his mother descended from the prestigious Oeben-Riesener furniture dynasty, while persistent speculation suggested the statesman Talleyrand may have been his biological father, a theory supported by physic...