François Boucher ‘Daphnis and Chole’ (detail modified) 1743 by Plum leaves on Flickr.

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François Boucher (1703 – 1770) French Rococo painter.

Oil on canvas
The Wallace Collection:
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François Boucher (1703-1770) – Daphnis and Chole

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Diane sortant du bain (“Diana leaving her Bath”)  [detail] 1742 

Francois Boucher  

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Venus Consoling Love by Francois Boucher, 1751, oil on canvas.

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Diane sortant du bain (“Diana leaving her Bath”)  [detail] 1742 

Francois Boucher  

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L’Odalisque Blonde by François Boucher  (1703 - 1770) 

The model was Marie-Louise O’Murphy de Boisfailyone, was one of the younger mistresses of King Louis XV of France. In his “Histoire de ma vie”, Giacomo Casanova relates that he found her “a pretty, ragged, dirty, little creature” of thirteen years in the house of her actress sister. Struck by her beauty when seeing her naked, however, he had a nude portrait of her painted, with the inscription “O-Morphi” (punning her name with Modern Greek word ὄμορφη, “beautiful”), a copy of which found its way to the King, who took her as one of his mistresses.

François Boucher ‘Portrait of Madame de Pompadour’ 1756 by Plum leaves on Flickr.

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In 1745 Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson became the mistress of Louis XV. Owing to her intellectual propensity, which impressed the king, she soon attained an elevated position at court, the climax of which was in 1756 her being named as the queen’s lady-in-waiting. To commemorate the occasion a combination private and official portrait was painted by Boucher.

Oil on canvas (201 x 157 cm)
Alte Pinakothek museum, München, Germany : www.pinakothek.de/en/francois-boucher/portrait-marquise-d…
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Boucher painted another half length portrait based on the above painting about two years later. The half length portrait is held at the National Gallery of Scotland: www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/B/2808/a…
A high resolution image of this second half length portrait at Wikipedia: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Fran%C3%A7ois…

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Le Dejeuner / The Breakfast 1739  Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
66 x 82 cm

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