1. Is the argument that these scenes are sexually explicit a correct statement, or could these images truly only symbolize the leisure activities of upper-class citizens?

2. I touched briefly on the idea of the viewer as a voyeur. This theme has been repeated throughout the history of art. Can it be applied fully to the images of the eighteenth-century rococo style?

3. How has your opinion changed, if you were not already aware of these sexual metaphors, about the beautiful paintings done by Fragonard, Watteau, Boucher, and other artists of the time? Is it surprising that many of these paintings were incorporated into the decorative arts?