Portrait of Francois Boucher

Francois Boucher Giclée Fine Art Prints 1 of 7

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).

167 Boucher Artworks

Shepherd and Shepherdess Reposing (The School of Love), 1761 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 4065-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:76.6 x 63.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

The Four Seasons: Spring, 1755 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Four Seasons: Spring 1755

Giclée Canvas Print
$60.90
SKU: 4069-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:54.3 x 72.7 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

The Bird Catchers, 1748 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Bird Catchers 1748

Giclée Canvas Print
$68.92
SKU: 13208-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:294.6 x 337.8 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

The Muse Euterpe (A Reclining Nymph Playing the Flute with Putti), 1752 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13238-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:97.8 x 129.8 cm
Private Collection

Madame de Pompadour, 1759 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Madame de Pompadour 1759

Giclée Canvas Print
$57.67
SKU: 4066-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:91 x 68 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

The Triumph of Venus, 1740 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Triumph of Venus 1740

Giclée Canvas Print
$62.45
SKU: 9677-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:130 x 162 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Shepherd's Presents (The Nest), n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Shepherd's Presents (The Nest) n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.06
SKU: 13169-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:98 x 146 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Venus Asking Vulcan for the Armour of Aeneas, 1732 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 8701-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:252 x 175 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Rhea Sylvia Fleeing from the Wolf, 1756 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Rhea Sylvia Fleeing from the Wolf 1756

Giclée Canvas Print
$68.64
SKU: 13247-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Tours, France

Venus and Vulcan, 1754 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Venus and Vulcan 1754

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.05
SKU: 13119-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:164.5 x 71.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

The Muse Terpsichore, n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Muse Terpsichore n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$53.87
SKU: 13248-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Private Collection

Diana Resting after her Bath, 1742 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Diana Resting after her Bath 1742

Giclée Canvas Print
$59.92
SKU: 8202-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:56 x 73 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Landscape with a Watermill, 1755 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Landscape with a Watermill 1755

Giclée Canvas Print
$62.31
SKU: 13226-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:57.2 x 73 cm
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Venus and Cupid, n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print

Venus and Cupid n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.05
SKU: 13253-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:93.5 x 163 cm
Private Collection

The Odalisque, 1745 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Odalisque 1745

Giclée Canvas Print
$59.78
SKU: 7310-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:53 x 64 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Vulcan Presents to Venus the Armour for Aeneas, 1757 by Boucher | Canvas Print
SKU: 13173-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:320 x 320 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

La Marotte (La Musette), 1759 by Boucher | Canvas Print

La Marotte (La Musette) 1759

Giclée Canvas Print
$57.10
SKU: 13215-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Museum of Palace of Versailles, Paris, France

A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right, c.1769 by Boucher | Paper Art Print

A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right c.1769

Giclée Paper Art Print
$48.61
SKU: 17811-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:27.3 x 39.4 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Venus Disarming Cupid, 1749 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Venus Disarming Cupid 1749

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.05
SKU: 13220-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:107 x 173 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Cupid a Captive, c.1754 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Cupid a Captive c.1754

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.05
SKU: 13120-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:164.5 x 84.5 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

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

Aurora and Cephalus n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$52.32
SKU: 13213-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:unknown
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nancy, France

The Cherub Harvesters, c.1730/35 by Boucher | Canvas Print

The Cherub Harvesters c.1730/35

Giclée Canvas Print
$60.20
SKU: 4057-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:122 x 96.2 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Venus Consoling Love, 1751 by Boucher | Canvas Print

Venus Consoling Love 1751

Giclée Canvas Print
$60.48
SKU: 4044-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:107 x 84.8 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

Sleeping Shepherd, n.d. by Boucher | Canvas Print

Sleeping Shepherd n.d.

Giclée Canvas Print
$51.05
SKU: 13218-BFR
Francois Boucher
Original Size:20 x 26 cm
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Chartres, France

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