A young woman in a white dress with blue bows stands on a swing in a Montmartre garden, half listening to a man seen from behind, while a small girl gazes up at them. Renoir scatters patches of pale colour over clothes and ground to catch sunlight filtering through leaves. His fellow painter Gustave Caillebotte bought it in 1877.
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Look at the dabs of light on the man's jacket and the path. Critics in 1877 mocked them as looking like grease stains.
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