Stumpet & Pink, Fragonard’s A Young Girl Reading, Angela FriedmanLa Lilouche, Love Me Sugar, Fragonard’s Blind Man’s Buff, I.D. Sarrieri

Fred & Ginger, Fragonard’s The Swing, La LiloucheI’m really impressed with the amount of patience and thought that The Lingerie Lesbian is putting into her posts that marry art and fine lingerie. Her choices are lovely with detailed descriptions and lingerie links.

In this post the Lingerie Lesbian focuses on French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), who  displayed an abundance of veiled eroticism and controlled sensual hedonism in his paintings. 

Jean-Honoré Fragonard ‘The Swing’Sensual Context and Decadence of ‘The Swing’

“The Swing” painting (1767), commissioned by the “notorious French libertine Baron de St. Julien as a portrait of his mistress” came with specific instructions dictated by the baron himself: “I should like you to paint Madame seated on a swing being pushed by a Bishop.”