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The Kiss of Innocence, or The Swing

Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1787-1788
Accession number: 78.20.7
Maker: Marguerite Gérard(Opens in new tab) (French, 1761–1837)
Dimensions: 18 3/16 x 21 3/4 in. (46.2 x 55.2 cm.)
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: This painting portrays an idealized scene from 1700s France with mothers and children enjoying nature and playing on a swing.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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One of a number of female painters to exhibit in France in the 18th century, Gérard specialized in tender scenes of mothers and children. Her paintings exemplify the purest Enlightenment principles of virtuous childrearing.

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