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François Boucher (UK: / ˈ b uː ʃ eɪ / BOO-shay, US: / b uː ˈ ʃ eɪ / boo-SHAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe]; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral ...
Pompadour at Her Toilette is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher from 1750 (with later additions) depicting Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. Boucher's painting titled "Madame de Pompadour" also demonstrates the Rococo style. The format of the painting changed several times after its initial creation.
Portrait of François Boucher by Gustaf Lundberg (1741) This is an incomplete list of works by François Boucher. Death of Meleager (c. 1727), Los Angeles County Museum of Art [1] Project for a Cartouche (c. 1727), Los Angeles County Museum of Art [2] Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino (1734), Metropolitan Museum of ...
With Boucher, the sumptuous Baroque was transformed into the gallant Rococo. The best representative and principal author the era's taste, Boucher used his imagination and virtuosity in exploring themes such as pastorals, bucolic landscapes, and mythological scenes dedicated to the loves of the gods. He devoted at least five paintings to Venus.
The Triumph of Venus is a 1740 oil-on-canvas painting in Rococo style by the French artist François Boucher.It inspired The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. [citation needed]
The Setting of the Sun is a 1752 oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter François Boucher.It and its pair The Rising of the Sun were both private commissions for Madame de Pompadour as full-scale models for the Gobelins Manufactory.