1767 · Skopia

Showing 4 works across all media from 1767

The Swing

Genre painting · Rococo

The Swing

Jean Honore Fragonard

1767 · Wallace Collection, London

An old man works the ropes without knowing the young man in the bushes is looking straight up her skirts. A slipper flies off.

★ 7.6

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

1767

★ 5.4

Political literature

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society · 1767

★ 3.5

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

1767

★ 2.9