Rococo Art

- figures small in dominant garden-like setting

- atmospheric perspective

- puffy clouds; reich vegetation; abundant flowers; sinuous curves

- patron in lower left (lover of lady) looking up skirt of young lady who swings flirtatiously, boldly kicking off her shoe at a Cupid sculpture

- unsuspecting bishop swings her from behind (represents marriage/her husband)

- Cupid asks young lady to be discreet and/or may be a symbol for secret hiding of patron

- Cupids bashful at flaunted affair

The Swing

- forty self-portraits exist, all highly idealized

- looks at viewers as she paints portrait of Marie Antoinette, whois rendered from emory since she was killed during French Revolution; subject in painting looks admiringly upon painter

- light Rococo touch to coloring

- inspired by portraits of Rubens

Self-Portrait