{"title":"Boucher, François","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrançois Boucher (1703-1770)\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne. Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting, but did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to financial problems at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. On his return from studying in Italy he was admitted to the refounded Académie de peinture et de sculpture on 24 November 1731. His morceau de réception (reception piece) was his Rinaldo and Armida of 1734.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoucher married Marie-Jeanne Buzeau in 1733. The couple had three children together. Boucher became a faculty member in 1734 and his career accelerated from this point as he was promoted Professor then Rector of the academy, becoming inspector at the Royal Gobelins Manufactory and finally Premier Peintre du Roi (First Painter of the King) in 1765.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with his painting, Boucher also designed theatre costumes and sets, and also tapestry. For the Beauvais tapestry workshops he first designed a series of Fêtes italiennes (\"Italian festivals\") in 1736, which proved to be very successful and often rewoven over the years, and then, commissioned in 1737, a suite of the story of Cupid and Psyche. During two decades' involvement with the Beauvais tapestry workshops Boucher produced designs for six series of hangings in all, like the tapestry showing Psyche and the Basketmaker from 1741 to 1742.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoucher was also called upon for designs for court festivities organised by that section of the King's household called the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi and for the opera and for royal châteaux Versailles, Fontainebleau and Choisy. His designs for all of the aforementioned augmented his earlier reputation, resulting in many engravings from his work and even reproduction of his designs on porcelain and biscuit-ware at the Vincennes and Sèvres factories. The death of Oudry in 1755 put an end to its contribution to Beauvais but his collaboration with the Gobelins lasted until 1765, when he stepped down from his position as an inspector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoucher died on 30 May 1770 in his native Paris. His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: \"Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"francois-boucher-40-high-resolution-images","title":"François Boucher 40 High Resolution Images","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the stunning works of French Rococo artist, François Boucher. 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