Ecran à l'antique [et] Ecran

About this artwork

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Art Historical Context

This print by Juste-François Boucher, created around 1775, captures the refined decorative tastes of late eighteenth-century France. As a work on paper classified simply as a print, it likely served as a design model or record of elegant household furnishings. The title “Ecran à l’antique [et] Ecran” points to screens—perhaps folding or fire screens—rendered in the “antique” or classical manner then coming into fashion. Boucher, son of the celebrated rococo painter François Boucher, worked during a period when French design was shifting toward cleaner lines and motifs drawn from ancient Greec...