Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The name and motivations of the person who commissioned The Swing remain obscure. So do the identities of the three people depicted. Only the painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, is known to us. In cases like these, art historians rely upon visual clues to understand what is being represented.
In this talk recorded on Monday 22 November 2021, Dr Yuriko Jackall, Head of Curatorial and Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection, is joined by artist Catherine Yass and curator Dr Rosalind McKever in a conversation about how visual codes - dress, gesture, and representation of place - shape the way in which we read and perceive identity.
The name and motivations of the person who commissioned The Swing remain obscure. So do the identities of the three people depicted. Only the painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, is known to us. In cases like these, art historians rely upon visual clues to understand what is being represented.
In this talk recorded on Monday 22 November 2021, Dr Yuriko Jackall, Head of Curatorial and Curator of French Paintings at the Wallace Collection, is joined by artist Catherine Yass and curator Dr Rosalind McKever in a conversation about how visual codes - dress, gesture, and representation of place - shape the way in which we read and perceive identity.
