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François Boucher - Washerwomen

Washerwomen (1768)

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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Deux femmes et deux enfants

Deux femmes et deux enfants (1769)

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Head of a Young Woman

Head of a Young Woman (early 1730s)

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The Archery Contest

The Archery Contest (1765)

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

La Leçon de musique

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Love Staying the Hand of Time

Love Staying the Hand of Time

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The Dispatch of the Messenger

The Dispatch of the Messenger (1765)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Figure studies

Figure studies (1735)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Allegorie auf die Geburt eines französischen Prinzen

Allegorie auf die Geburt eines französischen Prinzen (1728-1731)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
The spoiled child

The spoiled child (ca 1740)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid

Venus and Mercury Instructing Cupid (1738)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
View of Tivoli with the Temple of Vesta

View of Tivoli with the Temple of Vesta

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Afriquaine en deshabillé, plate 1

Afriquaine en deshabillé, plate 1 (18th century)

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Homme riant, étude pour Sganarelle dans L’Amour médecin de Molière

Homme riant, étude pour Sganarelle dans L’Amour médecin de Molière

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Bras tenant un tissu et deux pieds croisés, étude pour ‘La Lumière du monde’

Bras tenant un tissu et deux pieds croisés, étude pour ‘La Lumière du monde’

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Les Petits Oiseleurs, Les Enfants Musiciens

Les Petits Oiseleurs, Les Enfants Musiciens

François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
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