François Boucher

1703–1770 · Rococo

François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.

40 paintings

• Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?) (1747)
• Music and Dance (1740s)
• Cupids in Conspiracy (1740s)
• Head of a Young Woman (early 1730s)
• Venus and Cupid (1742)
• The Bird Catchers (1748)
• Landscape near Beauvais (1740)
• Pastoral Scene (1731)
• Cupids. Allegory of Painting (1760)
• Lying girl ( Miss O' Myrphy ) (1743)
• La Mort de Socrate (esquisse) (1762)
• Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas (1757)
• Brown Odalisque (1740)
• The Rape of Europa or Abduction of Europa (1747)
• Rinaldo and Armida (1734)
• Vénus désarme l'Amour (1749)
• La toilette de Vénus (1749)
• The Nest, also known as the Berger Present (1740)
• Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas (1732)
• The Bridge (1751)
• Les forges de Vulcain (1747)
• La marquise de Pompadour (1750)
• Diana leaving her Bath (1742)
• Imaginary Landscape with the Palatine Hill from Campo Vaccino (early 1730s)
• The Toilette of Venus (1751)
• Angelica and Medoro (1763)
• The Dispatch of the Messenger (1765)
• Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels (1765)
• Shepherd's Idyll (1768)
• Washerwomen (1768)
• Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto (1763)
• Jupiter in the Guise of Diana, and the Nymph Callisto (1759)
• Landscape with a Water Mill (1740)
• Pan and Syrinx (1759)
• Madame de Pompadour (1758)
• The Bath of Venus (1751)
• Allegory of Painting (1765)
• Allegory of Music (1764)
• Madame Bergeret (possibly 1766)
• La toilette (1742)