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Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière [Figures de Boucher pour Molière]

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Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière [Figures de Boucher pour Molière]

Medium

Drawing in graphite; etching; engraving; mezzotint

Tags

Men Women Trees

Dimensions

Overall: 16 7/16 x 11 1/16 x 7/8 in. (41.7 x 28.1 x 2.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942

Classification

Books

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About François Boucher

1703–1770 • France

French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. French painter, etcher, and draftsman. Comment on works: master draftsman; engraver; set designer

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