Swing Time: Serendipitous Conversations about the Rococo - Pink

Fragonard’s Les hasards heureux de l’escarpolette, known in English as The Swing, is a revered painting in the Wallace Collection and one of the most representative works of art of the entire French 18th century. To celebrate the gentle cleaning and restoration of this rococo icon, we have invited five art practitioners and five scholars to participate in a series of virtual conversations inspired by its key themes: Pink, Identity, Fashion, Play, and The Libertine.

In this conversation recorded on Monday 8 November 2021, Dr Yuriko Jackall, Head of Curatorial and Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection, artist Flora Yukhnovich and curator Dr Valerie Steele explored the widespread perception of the colour pink as particularly representative of femininity and the Rococo.