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François Boucher (1703 – 1770)

• Was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, working 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.
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