François Boucher

Boucher serves up creamy, idealized Rococo fantasy — rosy nudes, fluffy clouds, cupids, and soft pastel colour. Everything is decorative, sweet, and luxuriously artificial.

François Boucher (1703–1770) was a painter from France, associated with Rococo.

An ornate 18th-century style of pastel colour, feathery brushwork, and playful, sensual lightness. Rococo →

More Rococo painters: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough.

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Diana leaving her Bath — François Boucher
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