François Boucher
(1703-1770)
I chose to talk about François Boucher because of my love of Rococo style. When I picture Rococo, there is one prominent name that comes to mind...
François Boucher was a French painter who was famous for his pastoral and mythological scenes embodied by frivolity in a rococo style. Boucher, son of a designer of lace, was born in Paris in 1703. Although growing up he studied with François Le Moyne, he was mostly influenced by Antoine Watteau, a contemporary painter with a delicate style. Boucher won the Prix de Rome in 1723, allowing him to study in Rome from 1727 to 1731. With his return home to France came hundreds of creations of paintings, panels, tapestry designs, theater designs, and illustrations.
In 1734 François Boucher became a faculty member of the Royal Academy and in 1755 he became director of the Gobelins tapestries. In 1765 he was given a high honor when he was appointed the first painter to the king. The public fell in love with Boucher's work, considering him the most fashionable painter of his time, because of his delicate, lighthearted depictions of classical divinities and well-dressed French shepherdesses. Some of his most noticeable works can be found below.
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| Portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy c. 1752 |
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| Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, c. 1759 |
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| Putti with Birds, c. 1730-1733 |
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| The Toilet of Venus, c. 1751 |
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| Madame de Pompadour, c. 1756 |
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