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	François Boucher (1703–1770) \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boucher's insistence on a painterly surface and adoption of a high-toned palette favoring blues and pinks was well suited to Rococo interiors, but was the target of critical derision late in his career when the style fell from favor.
		Boucher's most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.
		Boucher's impact on the decorative arts of the Rococo period, in France and throughout Europe, is difficult to overstate.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/bouc/hd_bouc.htm (1154 words)

	François Boucher (Getty Museum)
		For François Boucher, "art" meant "artifice." He could paint straightforward genre scenes and portraits when appropriate, but the times called for enchantment and frolic, with just the right touch of titillation.
		Boucher's paintings and drawings celebrated a silvery, shimmering world of perfumes and powders, inspiring copies of his designs in media ranging from textiles and marquetry to porcelain.
		Boucher also designed tapestry cartoons for the Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory and in 1756 became the supervisor of the Gobelins manufactory.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=413&page=1 (227 words)

	Canvas Creations - François Boucher Biography
		Boucher was a son of a decoration and embroidery draftsman.
		Boucher's father took his teenage son to the studio of the decorator Francois Lemoyne for apprenticeship, and he mastered the art of composition.
		Boucher was chosen in 1734 by Jean-Baptiste Oudry as designer for the tapestry works at Beauvais, and much later, in 1755, became director of the Gobelins tapestries.
	www.canvascreations.com /gallery/bio_Boucher.html (297 words)

	Timken Museum: François Boucher
		In Boucher's fairylike vision of a lush garden setting, a young couple and their spaniel have stopped to rest while out for a stroll.
		The man, who is weaving flowers into the hair of his lover, is distracted by the appearance of a milkmaid or shepherdess, who has been gathering flowers of her own.
		Boucher was also the favorite artist of the king's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, for whom he painted some of his most impressive works.
	www.timkenmuseum.org /1-french-boucher.html (139 words)

	Francois Boucher - Artist Biographies
		Francois Boucher was born in Paris, the son of a lace designer who first taught him to draw.
		The greatest influences on Boucher's style were Le Moyne (who painted in the manner of Tiepolo), the late Baroque and early Rococo Venetians, and Watteau, from whose paintings and drawings Boucher made engravings.
		Boucher decorated many royal buildings and chateaux and in 1756, at the instigation of Madame de Pompadour, he received from King Louis XVI the important position of director of the Gobelins tapestry factory.
	www.posters-art.us /biography/Francois_Boucher.html (377 words)

	Francois Boucher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boucher, FranÁois, a French artist, was most well-known for his rural and mythical depictions, embodying the foolishness and licentiousness of the Rococo style.
		Boucher was greatly inspired by the exquisite style of his contemporary Antoine Watteau.
		Boucher was appointed first painter to the king in 1765 as well as Director of the Royal Academy.
	www.masters-gallery.com /03_Artists/artists/Boucher (131 words)

	Welcome to www.pictures2go.co.uk: Printing onto Canvas, Pictures onto Canvas, Photos onto Canvas, Canvas Prints. Giclee ...
		For François Boucher, "art” meant "artifice.” He could paint straightforward genre scenes and portraits when appropriate, but the times called for enchantment and frolic, with just the right touch of titillation.
		Boucher's paintings and drawings celebrated a silvery, shimmering world of perfumes and powders, inspiring copies of his designs in media ranging from textiles and marquetry to porcelain.
		Boucher also designed tapestry cartoons for the Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory and in 1756 became the supervisor of the Gobelins manufactory.
	www.pictures2go.co.uk /old_masters/boucher_francois/boucher_francois.html (252 words)

	Francois Boucher
		Francois Boucher was born in Paris, the son of a lace designer who first taught him to draw.
		The greatest influences on Boucher's style were Le Moyne (who painted in the manner of Tiepolo), the late Baroque and early Rococo Venetians, and Watteau, from whose paintings and drawings Boucher made engravings.
		Boucher decorated many royal buildings and chateaux and in 1756, at the instigation of Madame de Pompadour, he received from King Louis XVI the important position of director of the Gobelins tapestry factory.
	www.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/Francois_Boucher.html (407 words)

	Boucher
		Boucher born in París, was educated in a decorator surronding at the head of which we could find Lemoyne.
		It was him who introduced Boucher to mythologic subjets and to the world of nudes.
		Boucher is a lover of female sensuality, beautiful women and exquisit atmosphere.
	www.spanisharts.com /history/rococo/i_rococo_boucher.html (155 words)

	Boucher, Francois (1703-1770) French Rocco Painter of Mythological Scenes. Fine Oil Painting Reproductions of Boucher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Boucher, François (1703-1770), French painter, noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes, whose work embodies the frivolity and sensuousness of the rococo style.
		Boucher, the son of a designer of lace, was born in Paris.
		Boucher's sentimental, facile style was too widely imitated and fell out of favor during the rise of neoclassicism.
	www.palettesofvision.com /Rococo/Francois_Boucher/index1.html (262 words)

	Ancien Regime Rococo - Boucher
		Much of Boucher's early works show the influence of his teacher, but he was also greatly impressed by the delicate style of his contemporary Antoine Watteau.
		In 1723 Boucher won the Prix de Rome and studied in Rome from 1727 to 1731.
		Boucher was her favorite, and he painted her portrait several times, one of his most delicate and lovely portraits of Madam de Pompadour hangs in the Fogg Museum at Harvard.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/ancien_bou.html (366 words)

	Venus Consoling Love
		This painting belonged to Madame de Pompadour and, with a companion work, was probably part of the decoration at her quarters at Versailles or the chateau at Bellevue given her by the king.
		It has been suggested that Boucher's young wife, or even Madame de Pompadour, posed for Venus, but it is more likely that the goddess is simply an ideal of beauty, as soft and appealing as the luxurious silks that surround her.
		Boucher has used the mythological scene, not to tell a story of gods or heroes, but simply to capture the goddess with clear pastel tones and silvery light.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg55/gg55-12205.0.html (197 words)

	Boucher Francois
		Francois Boucher was a French painter noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes.
		Boucher, the son of a designer of lace, was born in Paris.
		He studied with the painter Francois Le Moyne but was most influenced by the delicate style of his contemporary Antoine Watteau.
	www.ankhoaagency.com /boucher_francois.htm (238 words)

	Boucher Francois
		François Boucher was a French painter noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes.
		Boucher's delicate, lighthearted depictions of classical divinities and well-dressed French shepherdesses delighted the public, who considered him the most fashionable painter of his day.
		Boucher's sentimental, facile style was too widely imitated and fell out of favor during the rise of neoclassicism.
	www.ankhoaagency.com /boucher_francois1.htm (203 words)

	WebMuseum: Boucher, François
		Boucher, François (1703-1770), French painter, noted for his pastoral and mythological scenes, whose work embodies the frivolity and sensuousness of the rococo style.
		Boucher, the son of a designer of lace, was born in Paris.
		Boucher's sentimental, facile style was too widely imitated and fell out of favor during the rise of neoclassicism.
	www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/boucher (251 words)

	River Landscape with an Antique Temple,BOUCHER, François,Oil on canvasThyssen-Bornemisza Museum Gallery of Art (Paseo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the one hand, Boucher exaggerated the town dweller's idea of idyllic nature; on the other, he gave the viewer the chance to identify individual architectural elements in the landscapes.
		Boucher, who was as free as he was virtuoso in the way he used his repertoire of compositions and objects, was almost able to serially produce landscapes in the style champêtre.
		Boucher's landscapes are nowadays regarded as the ultimate in the petit goût, which was held responsible for the decline of French painting.
	www.museothyssen.org /thyssen_ing/coleccion/obras_ficha_texto57.html (741 words)

	Francois Boucher (1703 - 1770) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Boucher also worked for high profile, Madame de Pompadour, creating portraits and decorating her palace.
		Because Boucher was primarily painting for others, his work was consistently focused on pleasant, mythological subject matters and scenic landscapes.
		Francois Boucher - Boy with a Carrot 1738 pastel on buff laid The Art Institute of Chicago French
	wwar.com /masters/b/boucher-francois.html (547 words)

	Leda and the Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Boucher made a copy which was shipped to Sweden in June 1742 where it has remained ever since.
		The story of Leda and the swan was extremely popular in both renaissance and baroque art, but Boucher has presented the subject with unerring pictoral instinct, obviously less concerned with sticking to the original story.
		By the addition of a second female figure, Boucher produced a sumptuous pyramid of flesh and luxurious raiment, but whose erotic overtones are somewhat tempered by the pastoral setting.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/anc_bou_leda.html (284 words)

	Biography
		He was also the favourite artist of Louis XV's most famous mistress, Mme de Pompadour, to whom he gave lessons and whose portrait he painted several times (Wallace Collection, London; National Gallery, Edinburgh).
		Boucher mastered every branch of decorative and illustrative painting, from colossal schemes of decoration for the royal châteaux of Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, and Bellevue, to designs for fans and slippers.
		In his typical paintings he turned the traditional mythological themes into wittily indecorous scènes galantes, and he painted female flesh with a delightfully healthy sensuality, notably in the celebrated Reclining Girl (Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
	www.wga.hu /bio/b/boucher/biograph.html (238 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: The Drawings of François Boucher
		Even given his time, Boucher may look odd to modern eyes, which might prefer a more sober contemporary like Jean-Étienne Liotard, much as Boucher did to many even by the start of the next century.
		Boucher has in fact copied the hen from a Flemish painting, just as he has adapted the landscape closely from Watteau.
		Boucher enters the Academy before he turns twenty, but within a decade its demand for formal history starts to pale.
	www.haberarts.com /boucher.htm (1703 words)

	AllRefer.com - FranCois Boucher (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		FranCois Boucher, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
		He studied briefly with FranCois Le Moyne but was also influenced by Watteau, many of whose works he engraved.
		At the age of 20 he won the Grand Prix, and from 1727 to 1731 he studied in Italy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Boucher.html (317 words)

	Boucher, Francois. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Boucher’s art embodied the spirit of his time; it was elegant, frivolous, and artificial.
		He studied briefly with François Le Moyne but was also influenced by Watteau, many of whose works he engraved.
		As a result, Boucher enjoyed many academic and official honors including that of director of the Gobelins tapestry works.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/Boucher.html (224 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Francois Boucher
		Les Jeunes Amoureux by Francois Boucher was confiscated from Jewish gallery owner Andre Jean Seligmann in 1940, during the Nazi occupation of France.
		Fri Oct 15,11:32 AM ET Francois Boucher, painter of the voluptuous daughters of France's pre-Revolution aristocracy, is currently on show here, coinciding with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale in which the British and the French finally made it up.
		The small pastoral painting, "Les Jeunes Amoureux" by Francois Boucher, was part of a collection of hundreds that disappeared after Jewish art dealer Andre Jean Seligmann fled with his family to the United States.
	art.surfwax.com /files/Francois_Boucher_Art.html (342 words)

	Texas museum showcases Boucher drawings, paintings \| LJWorld.com
		Francois Boucher, the 18th-century draftsman who became the premiere painter for France's King Louis XV, drew some 10,000 pictures during his career.
		Celebrating the 300th anniversary of Boucher's birth, it is the first major exhibit of his graphic work on loan from major museums and private collections in this country and Europe.
		Boucher was born in Paris and learned from painters there, then studied in Rome in the late 1720s.
	www.ljworld.com /section/arts/story/158431 (424 words)

	Francois Boucher Online
		Boucher's many students included Fragonard, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Hubert Francois Gravelot, Jean-Baptiste Marie Huet, Jacques Charlier, Jean-Baptiste Le Prince and Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin.
		Francois Boucher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		All images and text on this Francois Boucher page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/boucher_francois.html (633 words)

	Francois Boucher art prints - buy Francois Boucher art prints online at Oneposter.com. UK Art Prints store
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	Francois BOUCHER
		François Boucher rentre en France au début de l'été 1731; il est agréé à l'Académie le 24 novembre de la même année et y est reçu le 30 janvier 1734.
		Dans son dessin, Boucher se montre fidèle à la majesté sculpturale de l'ensemble de cette figure, en même temps qu'il en simplifie le regard, synthétise certains détails, alourdit le mouvement du vêtement, rehausse discrètement les chairs de blanc et rend cette feuille très attachante précisément par cet aspect inachevé.
		Boucher n'a pas seulement travaillé d'après les gravures du Recueil Crozat.
	www.francois-boucher.net /boucher2.html (1630 words)

	illex11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Francois Boucher (1703 – 1770), illustration in ”Le cocu imaginaire” by Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, Oeuvres.
		This luxurious work with 33 copper engravings based on drawings by Boucher, engraved by Laurent Cars, the author's portrait of Coypel and 198 vignettes, constitutes one of the most successful commissions of illustrations during the Rococo period.
		The artist's deligth with the stuffyness, where the graving tool is a perfect instrument to create the illusion of rustling silk and powdered skin, is combined with the etched background here presenting a light sketchy outdoor scene, while other pictures have been etched deeper to show the draglighted hard marble surface of nightly porticos.
	www.lub.lu.se /fridhemsborg/English/illex/illex11.htm (116 words)

	Francois Boucher tapestries - The Tapestry House
		François Boucher (1703 - 1770) was a celebrated French painter most famous for his pastoral and mythological art.
		A leading proponent of the rococo style he was heavily influenced by early 18th century landscape artist Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) and had a massive influence on French art during his lifetime.
		François Boucher tapestries have enjoyed considerable popularity mainly because of their depiction of romantic scenes and idealized pastoral landscapes that are more popular today than ever.
	www.thetapestryhouse.com /products/list/francoisboucher.html (160 words)

	Francois Boucher - Vénus presenting Aeneas to Jupiter and Juno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This important, newly discovered drawing is a working study for one of a pair of horizontal oval paintings by Boucher representing the story of Aeneas, commissioned in 1746 for the apartments of the Dauphin at Versailles but rejected by the patron upon completion, and instead taken over by Louis XV for his bedchamber at Marly.
		Alastair Laing has also pointed out that the very extensive use of white heightening and the fact that some compositional elements, particularly towards the right, were clearly drawn on top of this heightening, attest to the drawing’s intermediate role in Boucher’s development of his composition.
		Please also note that he has requested the loan of his drawing for the Boucher drawings exhibition he is organizing, to be held in 2003-4 at the Frick Collection, New York, and the Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth.
	www.artnet.com /artwork/170392/francois-boucher-venus-presenting-aeneas-to-jupiter-and-juno.html (299 words)

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