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Francois Boucher
François Boucher (29 September 1703 - 30 May 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture. He also painted several portraits of his illustrious patroness, Madame de Pompadour.
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Painting ID:: 56502
madame de pompadour
mk248 genom boucber sag madame de pompadour ett satt att framstalla sig sjalv som de franska konstens beskyddarinna. han var inrt sarskilt fortjust i att mala portratt ocb i brev erlande bon att de inte var sarskilt valliknande, men det brydde bon sig inte om sa lanhe de formedlade ratt sorts bild av benne, har framstalls bon som en litterart bildad kvinna. den utsokta atergivningen av bennes klanning paminner oss om att boucber. vars far var forlagetecknare till gobenger redan i unga ar maste maste ba kommit i kontakt med elegant tyger.
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Painting ID:: 56892
Jupiter captured
mk250 Year in 1754. Oil painting on cloth, about 168 x 86 cm. London, Wallace Collection.
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Painting ID:: 62417
Adoration of the Shepherds
1750 Oil on canvas Mus?e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Boucher had never been a committed artistic believer. Although he had worked in Italy, the Italian tradition did not tempt him into vast imaginative schemes. He never aimed at a heroic vision. He expressed no glorious promises about heaven: either as an Olympian refuge for aristocratic families, or in ordinary Christian terms. Like most French eighteenth-century painters, he could not evolve a satisfactory idiom for religious pictures of any kind; and he was particularly unsuited to the task by the nature of his real abilities. The picture shows one of his rare paintings of religious subject
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Painting ID:: 62419
Diana Resting after her Bath
1742 Oil on canvas Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Author: BOUCHER, Fran?ois Title: Diana Resting after her Bath (detail) , 1701-1750 , French Form: painting , mythological
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Painting ID:: 62421
The Milliner
1746 Oil on canvas, 64 x 53 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm The painting, commissioned by Count Tessin, the ambassador of Switzerland, is part of a series of four representing morning, noon, afternoon and night, respectively. Author: BOUCHER, Fran?ois Title: The Milliner (The Morning) , 1701-1750 , French Form: painting , genre
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Francois Boucher
François Boucher (29 September 1703 - 30 May 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture. He also painted several portraits of his illustrious patroness, Madame de Pompadour.
. Related Artists to Francois Boucher: | Hills, Laura Coombs | Harald Sohlberg | Marie Bracquemond | diisseldorf | Joseph Siffred Duplessis |
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