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Francois Boucher
Francois Boucher (29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, engraver, and designer whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne. Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.
In 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting, but did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to financial problems at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Trained by his father, a lace designer, Boucher won the Prix de Rome in 1723. He was influenced by the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, and his teacher François Le Moyne.
On his return from studying in Italy he was admitted to the refounded Académie de peinture et de sculpture on 24 November 1731. Boucher married Marie-Jeanne Buzeau in 1733. The couple had three children together. Boucher became a faculty member in 1734 and his career accelerated from this point as he was promoted Professor then Rector of the Academy, becoming inspector at the Royal Gobelins Manufactory and finally Premier Peintre du Roi (First Painter of the King) in 1765. His morceau de réception (reception piece) was his Rinaldo and Armida of 1734.
Boucher first won fame with his sensuous and light-hearted mythological paintings and pastoral landscapes. He executed important decorative commissions for the queen at Versailles and for his friend and patron, Mme de Pompadour, at Versailles, Marly, and Bellevue. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1734 and then became the principal producer of designs for the royal porcelain factories, as well as director of the Gobelins tapestry factory. In 1765 he became director of the Royal Academy and held the title of first painter to King Louis XV.
During the 1740s and ’50s Boucher’s elegant and refined but playful style became the hallmark of the court of Louis XV. His work was characterized by the use of delicate colours, gently modeled forms, facile technique, and light-hearted subject matter. Boucher is generally acclaimed as one of the great draftsmen of the 18th century, particularly in his handling of the female nude.
Although immensely successful, Boucher lost his artistic preeminence toward the end of his life; overproduction, poor translations of his paintings into tapestries, the growing sterility of his own work, and the emergence of Neoclassicism caused him to lose favour, both with the public and with such leading art critics as Denis Diderot.
Boucher took inspiration from artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Antoine Watteau. Boucher’s early works celebrate the idyllic and tranquil portrayal of nature and landscape with great elan. However, his art typically forgoes traditional rural innocence to portray scenes with a definitive style of eroticism as his mythological scenes are passionate and intimately amorous rather than traditionally epic. Boucher’s paintings of a flirtatious shepherd and shepherdess in a woodland setting, featured in The Enjoyable Lesson (The Flute Players) of 1748 and An Autumn Pastoral (The Grape Eaters) of 1749, were based upon characters in a 1745 play by Boucher’s close friend Charles-Simon Favart. Boucher’s characters in those paintings later inspired a pair of figurines created by the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, c. 1757–66.
Boucher’s paintings such as The Breakfast (1739), a familial scene, show how he was as a master of the genre scene, where he regularly used his own wife and children as models. These intimate family scenes are contrasting to the licentious style seen in his Odalisque portraits.
Boucher died on 30 May 1770 in his native Paris. His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: «Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it.»
Boucher is famous for saying that nature is «trop verte et mal éclairée» (too green and badly lit).
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Diana leaving her Bath 1742
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.489The Triumph of Venus 1740
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.459The Toilette of Venus 1751
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.269Venus in the Workshop of Vulcan 1757
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.409Venus Consoling Love 1751
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499Madame de Pompadour 1759
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.009Madame Bergeret
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.079Portrait of Madame Pompadour 1756
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.009L’Odalisque Brune 1743
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.019Resting Girl (Louise O’Murphy) 1751
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.989Resting Maiden 1752
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.979Allegory of Music 1764
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.559Allegory of Painting 1765
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499La Toilette de Vénus 1746
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.589Pan and Syrinx 1759
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499Venus and Amor 1742
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.409The Four Seasons- Summer 1755
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499The Four Seasons- Spring 1755
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.329The Four Seasons- Autumn 1755
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.269The Four Seasons- Winter 1755
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.269The Milliner 1746
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149Le Dejeuner
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.189The Rising of the Sun 1753
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.319The Setting of the Sun 1752
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.369Hercules and Omphale
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.229Companions of Diana 1745
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.269David and Bathsheba
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.549La Toilette de Vénus 1751
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.269Venus disarming Cupid
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149Venus and the Loves
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas 1732
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.779Venus at Vulcan’s Forge 1769
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.589The Triumph of Venus 1745
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.089Les Génies des Arts 1761
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.049Cupids, Allegory of Painting
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.949Cupids, Allegory of Poetry
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.229Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.679Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan 1754
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.829The Judgment of Paris 1754
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.739Vertumnus and Pomona 1757
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.179Danaë and the Shower of Gold
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149The Rape of Europa
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.369Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.419Mercury Entrusting the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.559The Education of Cupid 1742
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.319Jupiter in the Guise of Diana, and the Nymph Callisto 1759
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.239Cupid Disarmed 1751
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.229Cupids 1763
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499Diana a Callisto 1760
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.559Rinaldo and Armida 1734
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.559Pan and Syrinx 1743
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.589Les Confidences Pastorales 1745
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.679Diana Returning from the Hunt 1745
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.729Terpsichore, the Muse of Dancing and Song 1739
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.519Seated Nymph with Flutes
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.819The Muse Clio
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.559Arion on the Dolphin 1748
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.959Putti composition 1762
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.639Putti composition 1762
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.679Earth- Vertumnus and Pomona 1749
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.719Venus 1760
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.179Venus and Cupid
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.919Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.319Cupids in Conspiracy
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.369Venus and Adonis
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.319Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds 1769
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.589Boreas Abducting Oreithyia 1769
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.589The Chariot of Venus
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.459The Cherub Harvesters
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.499Putti as Fisherman 1744
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.369Cupid a Captive
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.689Venus and Vulcan 1754
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.689Aurora and Cephalus 1769
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr7.109Venus on the Waves 1769
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr7.199The Reading of the Letter
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.409The Chinese Hunt
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.409Le Jardin Chinois
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.369Chinoiserie
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.869The Chinese Marriage
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.119The Chinese Fair
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr4.049A young lady holding a pug dog
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.909Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour 1750
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.939Portrait of madame Badouin, the artist’s daughter
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.839Girl with Roses
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.939A Lady on Her Day Bed 1743
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.939Madame de Pompadour 1758
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.989La toilette 1742
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.909Joseph Presenting His Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.459Crossing the Ford
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.939Death of Meleager 1727
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.009Idylle rurale 1735
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.029The Secret Message 1767
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr2.879A Study For La Ferme
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.049La Bohémienne 1735
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.409Lovers in a park 1758
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149A Pastoral Scene
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr5.179Pastoral Scene
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.229Pastorale- A Peasant Boy Fishing
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.479Pastorale- The Vegetable Vendor 1735
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.479Der Angler 1759
By Francois BoucherSizes starting at kr3.149