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François Boucher

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Painting of Venus bathing with nymphs and cupids beside a stream in a wooded landscape, with drapery and soft pastel tones.

Venus in her Bath surrounded by Nymphs and Cupids

Rococo painting of Venus reclining nude while attendants and a cupid tend to her beside a fountain and draped silks.

The Toilet of Venus

1746

Painting of a Chinese-style riverside fishing scene with figures, boats, a red parasol, and a pagoda in the distance.

La Pêche chinoise

1742

Oil painting of a seated emperor under a gilded canopy receiving kneeling courtiers and attendants in a crowded court scene.

Boucher - L'Audience de l'empereur de Chine, 1742 vers

1742

Painting of a Chinese-style outdoor dance with musicians, dancers with raised arms, a seated figure under a canopy, and a pag

La Danse chinoise, par François Boucher

1742

Reclining woman in a frilled white gown on a pink daybed in a rococo interior with gilded wallpaper and a painted screen.

A lady on her daybed

1743

Painting of figures in Chinese-style dress in a garden with a red parasol, flowers, and a pagoda pavilion.

Le Jardin chinois

1742

Oval portrait of a young woman with pink roses and a pearl bracelet, against a dark blue background.

Girl with Roses

1760

Rococo painting of a seated woman and a young man under a tree, with a basket of grapes and a straw hat on the grass.

The Four Seasons: Autumn

1755

Painting of a young couple in a garden, the man crowning the woman with flowers, a sheep and classical ruins nearby.

The Four Seasons: Spring

1755

Painting of two reclining nude women and a seated clothed woman beside a stone fountain in a leafy garden setting.

The Four Seasons: Summer

1755

Portrait of a woman in a silk gown with blue ribbons beside a rose-filled urn in a garden, by François Boucher.

Madame Bergeret

1766

Painting of a woman in a gilded sledge pulled by a fur-clad man across a snowy winter landscape with a rustic mill.

The Four Seasons: Winter

1755

Two women in silk gowns share a letter beside sheep, a dog, a stone lion and flowers in a wooded garden.

The Love Letter

1750

Painting of a draped woman sketching a cherub on an oval canvas, attended by putti on clouds under a blue sky.

Allegory of Painting

1765

Oval painting of a veiled woman in red and blue holding a child who reaches for a pink rose, in an ornate gilded frame.

Virgin and Child

1765

Painting of a woman in a blue shawl and pink dress holding a spotted cat with a ribbon, before green drapery.

La Femme au Chat: Les caresses dangereuses

1731

Oval painting of two women in a landscape, one playing a tambourine and one a flute, beside a brass ewer and grapes.

Bacchantes

1745

Oval painting of two nude female companions resting in a forest after a hunt, with arrows, game and blue drapery.

Companions of Diana

1745

Oval portrait of a young woman in a white ruffled blouse holding a pug dog with a blue ribbon against a green background.

A young lady holding a pug dog

1745

Painting of Cupid aiming an arrow over a reclining nude Psyche, with putti, flowers and clouds in a soft sky.

Cupid Wounding Psyche

1741

Oil painting of a dying warrior attended by grieving figures in a classical interior, with a woman in white and dogs at right

Death of Meleager

1727

Three women in pastoral dress reclining with sheep, a straw hat and flower basket beside them, under trees and a blue sky.

Les Confidences Pastorales

1745

Sepia painting of a classical monument with a seated woman, cherubs, obelisk and winged figure in a columned interior.

Monument to Mignard

1743

Brown-toned allegorical painting with an empty oval cartouche, Minerva, winged trumpeter, reading woman and fallen figure.

Project for a Cartouche: An Allegory of Minerva, Fame, History and Faith Overcoming Ignorance and Time

1727

Chalk drawing of two tritons blowing conch shells beside a rocky fountain beneath a cliff with cascading water.

Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells

c. 1736

Red chalk drawing of a man in period costume searching his coat, with a faint sketched figure beside him.

Study for La Flèche, whose pockets are being searched by Harpagon

1713 - 1734

Etching of a man's bust in an oval medallion above cherubs, a bull, a lion and a lamb resting on clouds.

Sir Isaac Newton. Etching by L. Cars after F. Boucher

Red chalk drawing of a young valet in period dress leaning on a pedestal beside a coffee pot.

Study of Valet with Coffee Pot

c. 1739

Black chalk drawing with white highlights of Venus reclining with Cupid beside her on grey-blue paper.

Venus and Cupid

second or third quarter 18th century

Red chalk drawing of a muscular seated male nude with wings rising behind him against a hatched rocky background.

Male Academy with Wings

1745-50

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a boy with a tray of pastries beside a seated woman in a garden setting.

Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot

c. 1737