This article accompanies the fable
The Whore's Revenge



Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Swing

18th century pleasures in the park, as he looks up her dress and she knows it. This painting is from 1767.

A few years later he was commissioned by Madame du Barry to paint wall canvasses at her home in Louveciennes - a series known as Progress of Love, which is a lot tamer. However, as Rococo fell out of fashion he turned toward other styles and genres. He would survive the Revolution hidden away in Grasse, where he had been born. Before his death in Paris in 1806, one of his projects was to illustrate perhaps the greatest classic of libertinism of them all, Laclos' 1782 novel Dangerous Liaisons - a project Fragonard completed in 1796 - including the image below.

Also see François Boucher whom Fragonard trained with when he was young.