François Boucher
73 public-domain plates in the archive
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...
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Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas
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Venus Consoling Love
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Portrait of Madame de Pompadour
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Hercules and Omphale
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Snuff Box
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Peasant Woman with a Jug
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Another Chinese Musician
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Girl in a Landscape with a Basket of Flowers
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Sheet of Sketches, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"
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Chinese Young Lady
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Frontispiece, from Nouveau Livre d'Academies Peintes a Rome par les Eleves de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture (New Book of the Academy Painted in Rome by the Pupils of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture)
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Touch
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Chinese botanist
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The Rising of the Sun
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Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
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Diana leaving her Bath
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Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain
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A Young Shepherd Playing a Pipe for Two Young Shepherdesses
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La Blanchisseuse
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Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun
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Worker at a Forge
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Venus
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Reclining Nymph
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The Death of the Virgin
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The Adoration of the Shepherds
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Aurora
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The Archery Contest
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Design for a Funeral Monument
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Sancho Fleeing from the Servants of the Duke
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Venus Reclining on a Dolphin
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Landscape with a Rustic Bridge
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A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right
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Crêpes
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Apollo
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Allegory of Music
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Return to the Fold
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Danae Receiving the Golden Shower
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The Love Letter
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Madame Bergeret
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Allegory of Music
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Allegory of Painting
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The Bath of Venus
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Venus appuyee sur son cher Adonis ...
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Aurora and Cephalus
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Tête-à-tête
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Boy with Bagpipe
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Vulcan Presenting Arms for Aeneas to Venus from a set of The Loves of the Gods
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Drawing for "La Colonne Trajane"
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The Fisherboy
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Boy with a Carrot
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Bathing Nymph
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The Bird Catcher, from The Noble Pastoral
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Psyche's Entrance into Cupid's Palace [left fragment], from The Story of Psyche
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Psyche's Entrance into Cupid's Palace [right fragment] from the Story of Psyche
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Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?)
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The Proposal
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Woman on a Swing, Viewed From Behind
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Head of a Young Woman
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Seated Woman Holding a Bird Cage
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Andromeda (Andromède)
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Male Academy with Wings
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Antoine Watteau
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Woman Standing
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Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot
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Venus and Cupid
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Aeneas in the Underworld, Design for a Fan
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Music and Dance
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Fountain of Venus
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Cupids in Conspiracy
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Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
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The Departure of Jacob
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Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells
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The Presentation in the Temple
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Plates by François Boucher
- The Presentation in the Temple A catalogued plate
- Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells A catalogued plate
- The Departure of Jacob A catalogued plate
- Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy A catalogued plate
- Cupids in Conspiracy A catalogued plate
- Fountain of Venus A catalogued plate
- Music and Dance A catalogued plate
- Aeneas in the Underworld, Design for a Fan A catalogued plate
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