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François Boucher
François Boucher

François Boucher

French, 1703-1770
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François Boucher 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 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. On his return from studying in Italy he was admitted to the refounded Académie de peinture et de sculpture on 24 November 1731. His morceau de réception (reception piece) was his Rinaldo and Armida of 1734.

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.

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."

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Jupiter and Callisto

Jupiter and Callisto (1769)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Rising of the Sun

The Rising of the Sun (1753)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Venus and Vulcan

Venus and Vulcan (1754)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe (1743)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan

Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan (c. 1754)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs

Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs (c. 1732 - 1734)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Rape of Europa

The Rape of Europa (c. 1732 - c. 1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Setting of the Sun

The Setting of the Sun (1752)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Madame de Pompadour

Madame de Pompadour (1759)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Head of a Young Woman

Head of a Young Woman (early 1730s)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Pastoral Make-Up (La toillette pastorale)

Pastoral Make-Up (La toillette pastorale) (1745)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Pastoral with a Bagpipe Player

Pastoral with a Bagpipe Player (1749)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain

Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain (1749)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing

Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing (1761)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Shepherd Piping to a Shepherdess

Shepherd Piping to a Shepherdess (c. 1747 - 1750)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
A Young Woman And Youth Placing Young Birds In A Cage; ‘the Bird Nesters’

A Young Woman And Youth Placing Young Birds In A Cage; ‘the Bird Nesters’

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Pastorale au flûteur

Pastorale au flûteur

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
A reclining female nude

A reclining female nude

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
The Sleep Of Venus

The Sleep Of Venus (1754)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Venus Ordering Weapons From Vulcan

Venus Ordering Weapons From Vulcan

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus (ca. 1765)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Bridge

The Bridge (1751)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Landscape
The Chinese Garden

The Chinese Garden (1742)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figurative
Venus discovering the dead Adonis

Venus discovering the dead Adonis

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Hunting nymphs

Hunting nymphs

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
Idyllic Landscape with Woman Fishing

Idyllic Landscape with Woman Fishing (1761)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Landscape
Arion on the Dolphin

Arion on the Dolphin (1748)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Mythology
The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Adoration of the Shepherds

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Religion
The Nativity With A Hovering Angel

The Nativity With A Hovering Angel

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Religion
Virgin attending to the sleeping Christ child

Virgin attending to the sleeping Christ child

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Religion
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