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François Boucher’s “Aurora” (c.1733)

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2022-11-19

François Boucher’s “Allegory of Painting” (1765)

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2022-11-18

François Boucher’s Portrait of Madame Bergeret (c.1766)

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2022-11-17

François Boucher’s “The Rising of the Sun” (1753)

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2022-11-16

François Boucher’s “The Bridge” (1751)

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2022-11-15

François Boucher’s “Landscape with a Water Mill” (1740)

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2022-11-13

Huge fan of Francois Boucher’s creative decision to include this hideous, gaping-mouthed fish in the background of his otherwise lovely Birth of Venus (1750) 👨‍🎨🐟

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2022-11-07

‘Boucher’s portfolio’.
was the most popular painter of his day. The patronage of Mme. de Pompadour, to whom he was drawing master, contributed notably to his sparkling success. He designed tapestries for the Beauvais and Gobelins factories and was a Director of the ⤵️

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2022-09-29

the left, is combined w/ an impossibly tidy French mill to the right. In the 18th century the work belonged to patron and friend, Jean-Claude de Sireul, who owned so many drawings by Boucher that his collection was described by contemporaries as ‘Boucher’s portfolio’.

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2022-04-29

Reclining 👩on a 🐬 by Francois Boucher, c1730-40, maybe water nymph? 'style of the drawing - the animal’s roughly sketched head between👩’s outspread legs' suggests a study but 'motif does not appear in any of Boucher’s known paintings' 83/365 https://t.co/oGL06PT3Dk

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2022-03-24

Full disclosure:
This drawing is mostly Boucher’s Brunette Odalisque, with a few strategic changes, such as turning the figure around a bit—and she takes a more active narrative and complex emotional state.
Another detail is the addition of a hockey enforcer in his underpants.

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2021-10-08

vintage c. 1993 Vivienne Westwood skirt printed with scenes from Boucher’s “Hercules & Omphale”

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2021-06-20

4. Vivienne Westwood corset from the SS RTW 1990 collection inspired from François Boucher’s 1743 painting entitled “Daphnis and Chloe”

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2021-04-12

François Boucher’s “”Young Country Girl Dancing” (c.1765)

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2021-03-31

François Boucher’s “The Rising of the Sun” (1753)

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2021-03-29

François Boucher’s “The Bridge” (1751)

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2021-03-28

François Boucher, (1703-1770)

Sketch for a Portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1721 - 1764), c. 1750

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson was 'maîtresse-en-titre' of Louis XV. Boucher’s portraits were central to her self-presentation

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2020-12-22

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2020-11-12

On the 250th anniversary of death, the influence goes of his greatest paintings goes on. Artist-photographer Ben Marcin provides a fresh perspective on Boucher’s blues on our website.

See Ben's take on the rococo sky here: https://t.co/gnjOtfys3f

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2020-05-30

that many of the male protagonists in paintings wear pink?

Look closely at pink in paintings! By dressing gods like Mercury, and Jupiter in pink Boucher codes it as a symbol of power and prestige.

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2020-05-29