the swing auguste renoirThe Swing was painted in the garden of the house that Auguste Renoir was renting at the time on rue Cortot in Montmartre, the same place that gave birth to the famous Dance at the Moulin de la Galette the same year. The female model is Jeanne, a young Montmartre woman who frequently posed for Renoir, accompanied by the painter Norbert Goeneutte and Renoir's younger brother, Edmond. The work was shown at the third Impressionist exhibition in 1877,