by Albert Turoń
Nationality
French
Lifetime
1703-1770
Biography
French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers.
Artworks
The Presentation in the Temple
François Boucher
Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch ...
Music and Dance
Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy...
The Departure of Jacob
Fountain of Venus
Cupids in Conspiracy
Figure Group of Love Carried by the Thre...
Sèvres Porcelain Factory
Aeneas in the Underworld, Design for a F...
Venus and Cupid
Figure Pair of the Dancer (La Danseuse) ...
Vincennes Porcelain Factory
Pierre Blondeau
Plate Depicting the Soap Bubble Blower (...
Jean Daulle
Figure of the Bagpiper (Le Joueur de mus...
Male Academy with Wings
Woman Standing
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Antoine Watteau
No. 6: Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing...
Gabriel Huquier
Book of Fountains: No. 4
Andromeda (Andromède)
Figure Group of the Festival at the Chat...
Etienne-Maurice Falconet
Figure of the Dancer (La Danseuse)
