François Boucher (1703 – 1770),

was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. Along with his painting, Boucher also designed theater costumes and sets, and the ardent intrigues of the comic operas of Charles Simon Favart closely paralleled his own style of painting.  Boucher mentored the Moravian-Austrian painter Martin Ferdinand Quadal as well as the neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David in 1767. The displayed painting is a crop from Monument to Mignard, c. (1743).