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François Boucher - La Leçon de musique

La Leçon de musique

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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François Boucher

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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Young Girl with a Bird Cage

Young Girl with a Bird Cage

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

Idyllic Landscape with Woman Fishing (1761)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Contadina, plate 7

Contadina, plate 7 (18th century)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Venus in The Workshop Of vulcan

Venus in The Workshop Of vulcan (1757)

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

The Rising of the Sun (1753)

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

The Setting of the Sun (1752)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Sight

Sight (1720–1770)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Landscape with a Rustic Bridge

Landscape with a Rustic Bridge (c. 1740)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
La Sultane Lisant

La Sultane Lisant

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.06

Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.06 (1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Drei in der Luft schwebende Engel

Drei in der Luft schwebende Engel

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Liegender weiblicher Akt, auf den linken Arm gestützt, in Rückenansicht

Liegender weiblicher Akt, auf den linken Arm gestützt, in Rückenansicht

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.10

Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.10 (1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Young Man Wearing a Beret

Young Man Wearing a Beret

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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