Painting #051 - François Boucher

François Boucher 

(French Rococo, 1703-70) 

(L)  Portrait of François Boucher
- Gustaf Lundberg (1695–1786, Swedish)
- pastel on blue paper (65 x 50 cm) 1741
- Louvre Museum (Paris) 

 

(R)  Self-portrait in the Studio
- François Boucher
- oil on panel (27 x 22 cm) early 1730s
- Louvre (Paris) 

His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style.

Madame de Pompadour
- Boucher
- oil on canvas (212 × 164 cm) 1756
- Alte Pinakothek (Maxvorstadt) 

Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764, the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death) was an important sponsor of Boucher. 

     She liked arts but had shallow taste; her salon affected the court's preferences, thus promoting Rococo style, though subject to criticism from the contemporary cultivated intellectuals.

Madame de Pompadour 

Diana Leaving Her Bath  

- François Boucher

- oil on canvas (56 x 73 cm) 1742

- Louvre (Paris)

Diana Leaving Her Bath  ... in a movement to put naked and tempting females in paintings.
     Diana [Roman] / Artemis [Greek] is Goddess of the Hunt, Forests and Hills, the Moon, Archery.

The Toilet of Venus
- François Boucher
- oil on canvas (101 x 87 cm) after 1743
- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

Venus Consoling Love
- François Boucher
- oil on canvas  (107 x 85 cm)  1751
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

Blond Odalisque (Marie-Louise O'Murphy)
- François Boucher
- oil on canvas (59.5 x 73.5 cm) 1752
- Alte Pinakothek (Munich)

An Autumn Pastoral
- Boucher 
- oil on canvas (260 x 199 cm) 1749
- The Wallace Collection (London)

Pastoral Scene
- François Boucher
- oil on canvas (75 x 61 cm) 1740
- St. Petersburg (Hermitage)

Breakfast / Morning Coffee
- François Boucher
- oil on canvas (81.5 x 65.5 cm) 1739
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

François Boucher

Source: Wikipedia