Who painted The Swing, the artwork compared to the album cover?

Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted The Swing, the artwork compared to Olivia Rodrigo’s album cover.

The Swing is one of the best-known paintings of the French Rococo period. Fragonard created it around 1767, using a playful garden scene to suggest flirtation, secrecy, and erotic intrigue. A young woman swings forward while a hidden admirer looks up at her, and her shoe flies off during the motion.

The painting was commissioned by Baron Louis-Guillaume Baillet de Saint-Julien after another artist declined the subject. Fragonard’s version became famous for its theatrical composition, soft pastel colours, lush vegetation, and deliberately suggestive details.

The Swing is sometimes confused with works by François Boucher, another leading Rococo painter. Jacques-Louis David belonged to the later Neoclassical tradition, while Édouard Manet was a nineteenth-century modernist. Fragonard is the single canonical answer because the painting is generally catalogued as The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.