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François Boucher - Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure

Study for a Monument to a Princely Figure

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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The Artist died in 1770 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
François Boucher
About the Artist

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.

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More Artwork by François Boucher (View all 129 Artworks)

Cupid Wounding Psyche (1741)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Allegory of Music (1764)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Tête-à-tête (1764)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Les Baigneuses(Swimmers)

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Head of a Young Woman (early 1730s)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

Reclining Nymph (c. 1752)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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