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Description: | François Boucher, a French painter whose often mildly erotic pictures on mythological themes epitomized the Rococo style, also painted biblical subjects, scenes of modern life, portraits and landscapes, and produced designs for tapestries and porcelain. His most famous patron was Madame de Pompadour. Louis XV appointed him Premier Peintre du Roi in 1765. This work is one of many copies of a lost painting by Boucher and shows a garden setting in which Venus offers a wreath of flowers to Cupid. | Subjects: | figure; mythology (Venus and Cupid) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Boucher, François (French painter, engraver, and designer, 1703-1770) Æ After Previously attributed to school of Boucher, François (French painter, engraver, and designer, 1703-1770) Previously attributed to Tischbein Family (German family of artists, 18th-19th centuries) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8732... | Go to resource |
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