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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 ...
Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (French: Les Forges de Vulcain) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter François Boucher, executed in 1757 and now in the Louvre in Paris. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He produced it as the basis for one of a set of tapestries on The Loves of the Gods . [ 2 ]
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.
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.
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 ...
The Judgement of Paris (French: Le Jugement de Pâris) is an oil-on-canvas mythological painting by the French Rococo artist artist François Boucher. It was painted c. 1763 and belongs to the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Mulhouse, France. Its inventory number is 61.1.16. [1] The painting was bequeathed to the museum by Alfred Wallach (1882–1961
Boucher was born in Paris on 26 November 1885. He became curator at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.He founded the Union française des arts du costume (UFAC) that later merged with the costume museum Musée de la mode et du textile of the Louvre under the guidance of his assistant Yvonne Deslandres. [1]
Hercules and Omphale (1732–1734) by François Boucher. Hercules and Omphale is an oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher, painted in 1732–1734 and now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. It was in the Yusupov collection in Saint Petersburg until 1930. It dates to the period just after Boucher completed his studies with François Lemoyne. [1]