Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 69 × 123 cm · framed: 77.5 × 131.5 × 6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation
Accession Number
1948.181
Tags
About this artwork
Along with Cupids in Conspiracy (1948.181.2), this work is surely part of a series of over-door paintings that would have been installed in a house. However, where the panels were originally installed or who commissioned them remains unknown. They exemplify the fusion of fine arts and decorative arts that was common in elite interior design in 18th-century France. Even though the paintings were part of the wall decoration of the room, the patrons chose François Boucher, a well-known painter of p...