The 158 Artworks of François Boucher

Rinaldo and Armida (1734) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. The subject was inspired by the 16th-century epic poem 'Gerusalemme Liberata' (Jerusalem Delivered) by Torquato Tasso (1544-95). Rinaldo and Armida are a pair of lovers in the poem which is an idealized account of the first ...

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The Toilet of Venus (1751) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. This picture was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour as part of the decoration for her cabinet de toilette at the Château de Bellevue, one of the residences she shared with Louis XV. This painting (108.3 x 85.1 cm) is Now i...

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Bourdon went to Sweden in 1652, where he entered the service of that redoubtable monarch Queen Christina, who eventually gave up politics for art. During his years in Sweden, Bourdon mostly executed portraits, characterized by their elegance and subtlety. They are usually bust-length with the face s...

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Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing (1742) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. This painting is noted as one of Boucher's masterpiece. Painted earlier than the other in this series of Diana; This work forms the concluding panel in the hunting-lodge decoration. It shows the goddess Diana,...

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At the Salon of 1765, Boucher exhibited this painting with three others in order to form the narrative of a simple love story: a second painting depicted the arrival of the dove carrying a love letter, a third showed a shepherdess reading the letter aloud to her confidante, and the fourth depicted t...

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An Autumn Pastoral (1749) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. Boucher's pastorals and landscape paintings, which are certainly part of his rococo achievement, are willfully artificial on a basis of real observation. They create a new branch of rococo art in which the growing tendency t...

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