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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › François_BoucherFrançois Boucher - Wikipedia

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   François Boucher (UK: / ˈ b uː ʃ eɪ / BOO-shay, US: / b uː ˈ ʃ eɪ / boo-SHAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe]; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) 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 ...

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3. www.wikiart.org › en › francois-boucherFrancois Boucher - 76 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org

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   Learn about Francois Boucher, the most popular 18th century artist in the Rococo style. See his paintings, biography, awards, and famous quote on Wikiart.org.

   • Nationality: French
   • Birth Date: September 29, 1703

   • Place Of Birth: Paris, France
   • Death Date: May 30, 1770

4. www.metmuseum.org › toah › hdFrançois Boucher (1703–1770) | Essay | The Metropolitan ...

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   Learn about François Boucher (1703–1770), the most influential artist of the Rococo style in France and Europe. Explore his paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts, and his connections to royalty and theater.

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6. www.britannica.com › biography › Francois-BoucherFrançois Boucher | Rococo painter, tapestry designer, engraver

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   5 days ago · Rococo. François Boucher (born Sept. 29, 1703, Paris, France—died May 30, 1770, Paris) was a painter, engraver, and designer whose works are regarded as the perfect expression of French taste in the Rococo period. Trained by his father, a lace designer, Boucher won the Prix de Rome in 1723.

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7. www.theartstory.org › artist › boucher-francoisFrançois Boucher Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory

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   Learn about François Boucher, a French painter who celebrated the aristocratic lifestyle and the Enlightenment philosophy with his sensuous and playful style. Explore his paintings of mythological, erotic, and domestic scenes, and how they influenced later artists.

   • Nationality: French
   • Birth Date: September 29, 1703

   • Place Of Birth: Paris, France
   • Death Date: May 30, 1770

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   Who was François Boucher?

   • More than any other artist, François Boucher (1703–1770) is associated with the formulation of the mature Rococo style and its dissemination throughout Europe. Among the most prolific of his generation, he worked in virtually every medium and every genre, creating a personal idiom that found wide reproduction in print form.

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   Who was Nicolas Boucher?

   • 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.

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   Is Boucher an autobiographical painter?

   • Whether or not the painting is autobiographical, it is exemplary of Boucher's art historical knowledge (particularly his familiarity with paintings of seventeenth-century Dutch interiors), his love of ornamentation, his awareness of new philosophical thinking on family dynamics, all set in his cool palette of blues, greens, and cream tones.

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   Why was Boucher a popular artist?

   • The soft pastels, beautiful surfaces, and sensual bodies of Boucher's paintings were highly prized by the French aristocracy. Even his commissioned portraits were commonly idealized, often transformed into allegorical treatments or mythological heroes and heroines.

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9. www.nga.gov › collection › artist-infoFrançois Boucher - National Gallery of Art

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   Learn about the life and art of François Boucher, a leading French painter of the rococo style and the favorite of Madame de Pompadour. Explore his mythological, pastoral, and decorative paintings, as well as his prints, tapestries, and stage designs.

10. www.metmuseum.org › art › collectionFrançois Boucher | The Interrupted Sleep | The Metropolitan ...

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    A pastoral scene of a woman and a man interrupted by a letter in a painting by French artist François Boucher from 1750. Learn about the artwork, its history, and its connection to Madame de Pompadour's Château de Bellevue.