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Born in 1703, François Boucher was a known for his portraits as well as his mythological, allegorical, classical, & pastoral paintings.

📷 Credit: , "The Setting of the Sun" by 1752.

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2021-09-30

29 September 1703, birth of François Boucher, who was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Rococo style and one of the most celebrated painters and decorative artist of the 18th century.

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2021-09-29

🎨 French painter and set designer, was 29 September 1703.

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2021-09-29

It’s 💌 To whom are you writing?

📷: Love Letter, Francois Boucher, after 1750. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, acc. no. 51.6. Photographed by Brian Searby.

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2021-09-26

Find someone who looks at you the way Boucher's babies look at each other.
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François Boucher, Poetry, 18th century

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2021-09-09

5/6 Examples of Rococo Art (playful and youthful themes, pretty subjects and most closely associated with France pre-revolution) First half 18th century. The Music Lesson by Boucher, The Scale of Love by Watteau and The Gathering of the Manna by Tiepolo.

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2021-09-05

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘴 (1751) by François Boucher, in Red Dead Redemption 2.

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2021-08-11

Studio / Workshop of François Boucher, French (1703 - 1770)

The Muse Clio, c.1750s.

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2021-08-07

Lucien Boucher, Eloge de la Folie

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2021-08-04

August has arrived. ☀️ In his series at the Frick, François Boucher paints four scenes of amorous encounters to illustrate the seasons.

In "Summer," three bathing nudes cool off by a dolphin-shaped fountain.
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François Boucher, The Four Seasons: Summer, 1755

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2021-08-02

Du mythe de Léda et Jupiter où le dieu se métamorphose en cygne pour la séduire, Boucher livre une interprétation libre : il adjoint à Léda une compagne, prétexte érotique et discrète allusion aux amours saphiques.
📷 F. Boucher, Léda et le cygne

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2021-06-23

« Le XVIIIe siècle est le parent pauvre de la peinture française » est une absurdité quand François Boucher, Noël Nicolas-Coypel, Antoine Watteau, Jacques Louis David, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert ou encore François Lemoyne ont brillé de part leur talent.

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2021-06-22

François Boucher, Danaé recevant la pluie d'or dans "L’Empire des sens" au

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2021-06-17

RDV le 24/06 à 17h pour une conférence de Guillaume Faroult, conservateur au et auteur de L'Amour peintre: "Entre Boucher, Greuze et Fragonard, Pierre-Antoine Baudouin ou les leçons du libertinage".
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2021-06-14

François Boucher, Léda et le cygne 1742

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2021-06-11