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François Boucher - La Sultane Lisant

La Sultane Lisant

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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The Continence of Scipio

The Continence of Scipio

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The Bridge

The Bridge (1751)

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Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs

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

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

Pastorale au flûteur

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figure studies

Figure studies (1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.04

Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.04 (1735)

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

Venus discovering the dead Adonis

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The Artist in His Studio

The Artist in His Studio (circa 1733)

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

A reclining female nude

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.11

Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart Pl.11 (1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Half-Length Study of a Man

Half-Length Study of a Man

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The Love Letter

The Love Letter (1750)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Fille de Cio isle de l’Archipel, plate 10

Fille de Cio isle de l’Archipel, plate 10 (18th century)

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

Landscape with a Rustic Bridge (c. 1740)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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