Portrait of Francois Boucher

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1703-1770

French Rococo Painter

For more than three decades, François Boucher (1703-1770) was at the pinnacle of French painting with his immense talent and astonishing productivity. His career was brilliant and he enjoyed all kinds of honours. A creator of religious and secular compositions, Boucher was also a landscape painter, illustrator, draughtsman, and decorator. His rich oeuvre is not always alien to mediocrity, but his works remain a magnificent hymn in praise of woman. The artist glorifies her for her beauty and charm, whether she is a goddess, a mother, a worldly lady, sweet or chaste.

Boucher polished himself in the studio of François Lemoine in the tradition of applied art and made his living as an illustrator and engraver under Jean-François Carr. In 1724 he received the first prize of the Royal Academy, which took him to Rome, where he remained until 1731. There he studied the Baroque works of Pietro da Cortona and the painting of Correggio. He was admitted a member of the Academy alongside "Rinaldo and Armida", and subsequently became its director and first royal painter (1765). He worked intensively and achieved immediate success: combining artistic direction of the great royal manufactories of Beauvais and the Gobelin brothers, the production of sets for the theatre and opera, and commissions from the sovereign and Madame de Pompadour, who patronised him. She installed him in the Louvre in 1752. With the tapestries "The History of Psyche" (1739), also the two famous series "The Love of the Gods", Boucher emerged as the most ingenious and inventive decorator of the Louis XV era. His sensuality, his virtuosity, his limpid and vivid tones, his attraction to artistic craft give charm to his large-scale mythological scenes as well as to his portraits (Marquise de Pompadour).

166 Boucher Artworks

Aurora and Cephalus, n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print

Aurora and Cephalus n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.12
SKU: 13213-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France

Pastoral, c.1730 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Pastoral c.1730

Giclée Canvas Print
$62.66
SKU: 13212-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:63.5 x 71 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

Landscape with Fisherman and a Young Woman, 1769 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13211-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:65 x 55 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

Pastoral Repast, 1769 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Pastoral Repast 1769

Giclée Canvas Print
$63.62
SKU: 13210-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:65 x 55 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA

The Dovecote, 1758 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Dovecote 1758

Giclée Canvas Print
$50.02
SKU: 13209-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:47.3 x 71.1 cm
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA

The Bird Catchers, 1748 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Bird Catchers 1748

Giclée Canvas Print
$67.33
SKU: 13208-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:294.6 x 337.8 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

The Fountain of Love, 1748 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Fountain of Love 1748

Giclée Canvas Print
$67.33
SKU: 13207-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:294.6 x 337.8 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Venus on the Waves, 1769 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Venus on the Waves 1769

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13206-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:265 x 86 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Aurora and Cephalus, 1769 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Aurora and Cephalus 1769

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13205-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:265 x 86 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Companions of Diana, 1745 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Companions of Diana 1745

Giclée Canvas Print
$60.46
SKU: 13204-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:117.2 x 91.8 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Bacchantes, c.1745 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Bacchantes c.1745

Giclée Canvas Print
$61.84
SKU: 13203-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:117.3 x 96.8 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Virgin and Child, c.1765/70 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Virgin and Child c.1765/70

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13202-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:43.2 x 34.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Music and Dance, c.1740/50 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Music and Dance c.1740/50

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13201-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:69 x 123 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Cupids in Conspiracy, c.1740/50 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Cupids in Conspiracy c.1740/50

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13200-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:68.8 x 123.2 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Fountain of Venus, 1756 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Fountain of Venus 1756

Giclée Canvas Print
$69.95
SKU: 13199-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:233 x 215 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Joseph Presenting His Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh, c.1723 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13198-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:57.9 x 72.7 cm
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, USA

Madame Bergeret, 1746 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Madame Bergeret 1746

Giclée Canvas Print
$55.24
SKU: 13197-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:143.5 x 105.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Rinaldo and Armida, 1734 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Rinaldo and Armida 1734

Giclée Canvas Print
$60.60
SKU: 13196-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:135 x 170 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Gardener, 1761 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Gardener 1761

Giclée Canvas Print
$57.57
SKU: 13195-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica a Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy

Morning, 1764 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Morning 1764

Giclée Canvas Print
$59.78
SKU: 13194-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica a Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy

Capriccio View from the Campo Vaccino, 1734 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13193-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:63.5 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Angelica and Medoro, 1763 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Angelica and Medoro 1763

Giclée Canvas Print
$93.66
SKU: 13185-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:66.7 x 56.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Jupiter in the Guise of Diana and Callisto, n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13184-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:64.8 x 54.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

The Dispatch of the Messenger, 1765 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Dispatch of the Messenger 1765

Giclée Canvas Print
$49.87
SKU: 13183-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:32.1 x 26.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

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