Les deux Confidentes (The two Confidants)
18th century
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/8 x 14 1/16 in. (48 x 35.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.1075
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Les deux Confidentes (The Two Confidants is an exquisite 18th-century print by engraver Jean Ouvrier after a design by François Boucher, the celebrated French Rococo master. This etching and engraving captures a charming, intimate scene featuring two women in elegant attire, likely sharing secrets amid lush trees and playful animals—evoking the Rococo era's delight in lighthearted, sensual vignettes of daily life and nature. Boucher's influence shines through in the graceful figures and idyllic setting, hallmarks of his style that blended fantasy with refined beauty. The medium of etching a...
About the Artist
Jean Ouvrier|François Boucher (French|French) · 1725 |1714 –1725 |1789
French, 1725–1784|French, Avignon 1714–1789 Paris