The See-Saw | |
Artist: | Jean-Honoré Fragonard |
Year: | c. 1750−1752 |
Medium: | oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 120 |
Width Metric: | 94.5 |
City: | Madrid, Spain |
Museum: | Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza |
The See-Saw is an oil-on-canvas painting by French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard, created c.1750–1752 during the artist's early career. It is currently in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The painting forms a pair with another Fragonard work entitled Blind Man's Bluff.[1] Blind Man's Bluff focuses on courtship while The See-Saw, and the metaphor of the rocking motion of the seesaw, suggests the relationship has been consummated.[2] [3]
The See-Saw depicts young children playing with a seesaw in a forest grove. It is seen as an important precedent to Fragonard's masterpiece The Swing.[4]