[1] The artist also produced another work of the same title some time between 1775 and 1780, which is held in the Samuel H. Kress Collection.

[2] Eighteenth-century engravings were produced of both paintings, showing that they may have originally been as much as a foot higher at the top.

[3] The Toledo Museum of Art, where the painting is located, describes the work: "Playfully erotic and sensuously painted, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's scene of youthful flirtation fulfils the eighteenth-century aristocratic French taste for romantic pastoral themes.

The figures are beautifully dressed in rustic but improbably clean and fashionable clothes; the woman's shoes even have elegant bows on them.

Boucher's influence can be seen in the framework of luxuriant vegetation, but the careful composition of the scene is Fragonard's own.