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François Boucher - Virgin attending to the sleeping Christ child

Virgin attending to the sleeping Christ child

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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Head of a Young Woman

Head of a Young Woman (early 1730s)

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Angelica and Medoro

Angelica and Medoro (1763)

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Vertumnus and Pomona

Vertumnus and Pomona

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Amour aux raisins

Amour aux raisins (1765-1770)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
La Leçon de musique

La Leçon de musique

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Interior of a Barn with a Family of Coopers

Interior of a Barn with a Family of Coopers (1763–1766)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Une dame à sa toilette, also called La Mouche

Une dame à sa toilette, also called La Mouche

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

Arion on the Dolphin (1748)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
La toilette de Vénus

La toilette de Vénus

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Neptune et Amymoné

Neptune et Amymoné (1764)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Saddled Donkey

Saddled Donkey

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The Quiquengrogne Mill at Charenton

The Quiquengrogne Mill at Charenton

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Fontaine avec deux amours dont l’un est couché

Fontaine avec deux amours dont l’un est couché (1765-1770)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Hirtenlandschaft mit Fluss

Hirtenlandschaft mit Fluss (1741)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Hécube et Cassandre offrant une étoffe à Minerve

Hécube et Cassandre offrant une étoffe à Minerve

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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