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* PinkMeansFeminine: The idly beautiful woman at the center of the painting is decked in an elegant pink frock and mounted on the titular swing. She's very much a GirlyGirl, openly flirting with a man below her and ever so delicately throwing her show away.

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* PinkMeansFeminine: The idly beautiful woman at the center of the painting is decked in an elegant pink frock and mounted on the titular swing. She's very much a GirlyGirl, openly flirting with a man below her and ever so delicately throwing her show shoe away.
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* EatingTheEyeCandy: The man on the left is looking directly under the woman's skirt, and his expression looks downright enraptured.
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* TheXOfY: Its original French name is ''Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette'' (translation: ''The Happy Accidents of the Swing'').
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* TropeCodifier: ''The Swing'' is arguably one of the most famous contributions of art history the Rococo Movement provided.

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* TropeCodifier: ''The Swing'' is arguably one It marked the tonal shift from intense, religious {{art}}works commonly associated with the early Baroque to LighterAndSofter depictions of the most famous contributions aristocratic life of art history the Rococo Movement provided.
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* LoveTriangle: Having two men hiding in bushes opposite of the woman implies that they have been (or aspire to be) the woman's competing lovers. [[EuropeansAreKinky Hey, "when in France", right?]]

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* LoveTriangle: Having two men hiding An aristocratic woman is swinging without care. Her husband, left in the shadows, is the one putting the swing in motion, while her lover is hidden in the bushes opposite below her, openly admiring her beauty. This painting is meant as a depiction of how the woman implies that they have been (or aspire higher classes don't see adultery as a sin but as a necessity born from having to be) the woman's competing lovers. [[EuropeansAreKinky Hey, "when in France", right?]]marry for economical reasons.



* PinkMeansFeminine: The idly beautiful woman at the center of the painting is decked in a pink gown.

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* PinkMeansFeminine: The idly beautiful woman at the center of the painting is decked in a an elegant pink gown.frock and mounted on the titular swing. She's very much a GirlyGirl, openly flirting with a man below her and ever so delicately throwing her show away.
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* LighterAndSofter: The painting is the poster-child of the Rococo Movement, a later part of the Baroque Movement that shifted its focus to the leisure time of the French Aristocracy and a Romantic appeal to nature.

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* LighterAndSofter: The painting is the poster-child poster child of the Rococo Movement, a later part of the Baroque Movement that shifted its focus to the leisure time of the French Aristocracy and a Romantic appeal to nature.



* SwingLowSweetHarriet: The woman is portrayed on a swing dead-center in the picture.

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* SwingLowSweetHarriet: The woman is portrayed on a swing dead-center in the picture.picture and is feeling joyous. The reason is that she's being pushed by her husband, with her stretched-out legs being on display to her lover, who is hidden in the bushes. She looks quite pleased with herself because of that.
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* PimpedOutDress: The woman's billowing dress is made of silk. It has ruffled sleeves, at least two layers of cloth (a pink outer one and an inner white one), and a white, laced bodice.

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* PimpedOutDress: The woman's billowing dress is made of silk. It has ruffled sleeves, sleeves and hemline, at least two layers of cloth (a pink outer one and an inner white one), and a white, laced bodice.
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* PimpedOutDress: The woman in the painting is wearing a voluminous pink dress.

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* PimpedOutDress: The woman in the painting woman's billowing dress is wearing a voluminous made of silk. It has ruffled sleeves, at least two layers of cloth (a pink dress.outer one and an inner white one), and a white, laced bodice.

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* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The painting was scandalous (and by extension, beloved) for the various sexual allusions going on in the picture.

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* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The painting This French {{painting|s}} was scandalous (and by extension, beloved) for the various sexual allusions going on in the picture. First, the two men covet the woman in the swing, who is wearing a {{pink|IsErotic}} dress and looking flirtatiously at one of them.


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* PinkIsErotic: The woman's [[DudeMagnet sexual allure]] is represented by her pink PimpedOutDress.
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''The Swing'' (French: ''L'Escarpolette''), also known as ''The Happy Accidents of the Swing'' (French: ''Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette'', the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.

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''The Swing'' (French: ''L'Escarpolette''), also known as ''The Happy Accidents of the Swing'' (French: ''Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette'', the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting {{painting|s}} by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.
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* PimpedOutDress: The woman in the painting is wearing a voluminous pink dress.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: The idly beautiful woman at the center of the painting is decked in a pink gown.
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* LoveTriangle: Having two men hiding in bushes opposite of the women implies that they have been (or aspire to be) the woman's competing lovers. [[EuropeansAreKinky Hey, "when is France", right?]]

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* LoveTriangle: Having two men hiding in bushes opposite of the women woman implies that they have been (or aspire to be) the woman's competing lovers. [[EuropeansAreKinky Hey, "when is in France", right?]]
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* TropeCodifier: ''The Swing'' is arguably one of the most famous contributions of art history the Rococo Movement

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* TropeCodifier: ''The Swing'' is arguably one of the most famous contributions of art history the Rococo Movement
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''The Swing'' (French: ''L'Escarpolette''), also known as ''The Happy Accidents of the Swing'' (French: ''Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette'', the original title), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.

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!!''The Swing'' provides examples of:

* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: The painting was scandalous (and by extension, beloved) for the various sexual allusions going on in the picture.
* LighterAndSofter: The painting is the poster-child of the Rococo Movement, a later part of the Baroque Movement that shifted its focus to the leisure time of the French Aristocracy and a Romantic appeal to nature.
* LoveTriangle: Having two men hiding in bushes opposite of the women implies that they have been (or aspire to be) the woman's competing lovers. [[EuropeansAreKinky Hey, "when is France", right?]]
* SwingLowSweetHarriet: The woman is portrayed on a swing dead-center in the picture.
* TropeCodifier: ''The Swing'' is arguably one of the most famous contributions of art history the Rococo Movement

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