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- oil paint
- Artist
- François Boucher
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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.
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The Bird Catcher, from The Noble Pastoral
1778 · Wool and silk, slit and double interlocking tapestry weave
Shepherd's Idyll
1768 · Oil on canvas
Washerwomen
1768 · Oil on canvas
A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right
1768 · black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on brown laid paper (formerly blue)
Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas
1767 · Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff laid paper
Venus appuyee sur son cher Adonis ...
1767 · black and white chalk on faded blue laid paper
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