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François Boucher ( 29. září 1703, Paříž – 30. května 1770, Paříž) byl francouzský malíř, jeden z hlavních představitelů rokokové malby. Pracoval i jako dvorní portrétista Madame de Pompadour. Byl též výborným kreslířem, jeho způsob kresby připomíná Rubense a Watteaua .
Female Nude on a Dolphin (circa 1730 - 1740) by François Boucher Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. 'Along with Fragonard and Watteau, Boucher ranks among the most important French artists of the eighteenth century.'. Landscape with a Water Mill (1740) by François Boucher The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. 'Here, François Boucher refers to ...
News. François Boucher was a French painter known as a master of the Rococo style. His delicate paintings of pastoral and boudoir scenes meld naturalism with lighthearted fantasy. Referring to his interest in staging compositions in a theatrical manner, he once quipped, “Nature is too green and badly lit.”. Born on September 29, 1703 in ...
Feb 19, 2022 · François Boucher’s paintings depicted the emergence of Enlightenment philosophy as well as the noble Salons that supported these thinkers at the same time. Boucher’s work is a notable example of a more refined Rococo aesthetic, full of contrasts that merge tradition, elegance, and inventiveness.
François Boucher. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. Exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co., Inc. New York, 1980, pp. 17, 45, no. 36, fig. 39, notes that although Posner proposes that "Village Idyll" and the "Contented Fisherman" originally formed a group with the present picture and its pendant, the measurements differ greatly from our pair, which is ...
François Boucher. (b Paris, 29 Sept. 1703; d Paris, 30 May 1770). French Rococo painter, draughtsman, etcher, and designer, whose work best represents the frivolity and elegant superficiality of French court life in the middle of the 18th century. His father was a minor painter, who probably gave him his first training, and he briefly studied ...
François Boucher. Paris, [1906], p. 125. Georges Pannier in Pierre de Nolhac. François Boucher, premier peintre du roi, 1703–1770. Paris, 1907, pp. 111, 125, lists it as "Bacchus et Ariane" no. 335 in the 1790 Marin sale, and as "Venus et Adonis" no. 11 in the 1851 Prousteau de Montlouis sale, sold with its pendant for Fr 3,250. Pierre de ...
