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Venus
French Rococo Era Painter, 1703-1770
Francois Boucher seems to have been perfectly attuned to his times, a period which had cast off the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the preceding age of Louis XIV and had replaced formality and ritual by intimacy and artificial manners. Boucher was very much bound to the whims of this frivolous society, and he painted primarily what his patrons wanted to see. It appears that their sight was best satisfied by amorous subjects, both mythological and contemporary. The painter was only too happy to supply them, creating the boudoir art for which he is so famous.
Boucher was born in Paris on Sept. 29, 1703, the son of Nicolas Boucher, a decorator who specialized in embroidery design. Recognizing his sons artistic potential, the father placed young Boucher in the studio of François Lemoyne, a decorator-painter who worked in the manner of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Though Boucher remained in Lemoynes studio only a short time, he probably derived his love of delicately voluptuous forms and his brilliant color palette from the older masters penchant for mimicking the Venetian decorative painters.
mk53
1754
oil on canvas
79.2x138.7cm
Painting ID:: 26675
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Venus
French Rococo Era Painter, 1703-1770
Francois Boucher seems to have been perfectly attuned to his times, a period which had cast off the pomp and circumstance characteristic of the preceding age of Louis XIV and had replaced formality and ritual by intimacy and artificial manners. Boucher was very much bound to the whims of this frivolous society, and he painted primarily what his patrons wanted to see. It appears that their sight was best satisfied by amorous subjects, both mythological and contemporary. The painter was only too happy to supply them, creating the boudoir art for which he is so famous.
Boucher was born in Paris on Sept. 29, 1703, the son of Nicolas Boucher, a decorator who specialized in embroidery design. Recognizing his sons artistic potential, the father placed young Boucher in the studio of François Lemoyne, a decorator-painter who worked in the manner of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Though Boucher remained in Lemoynes studio only a short time, he probably derived his love of delicately voluptuous forms and his brilliant color palette from the older masters penchant for mimicking the Venetian decorative painters.
mk53
1754
black chalk and pastel on light brown paper
42.7x30.3cm
photograph courtesy of Christie s
Painting ID:: 26686
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Venus
mk65
Oil on canvas
46 7/8x65in
Painting ID:: 28842
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Venus
Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1458-1537
mk67
Oil on panel
59 7/16x27 3/16in
Uffizi,Gallery
Painting ID:: 29768
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Venus
Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1458-1537
mk156
c.1493
Oil on canvas
151x69cm
Painting ID:: 40266
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Venus
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1577-1640
mk225
1614
51.5x79cm
Painting ID:: 52964
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Venus
Italian Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1884-1920
mk232
1918
Oil on canvas
99x64.7cm
Painting ID:: 53488
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Venus
Spanish Baroque Era Painter, 1599-1660
mk237
1650
Oil on canvas
122.5x197cm
Painting ID:: 54779
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Venus
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851
mk238
1819
Watercolour
22.4x28.7cm
Painting ID:: 54884
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Venus
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851
mk238
1840
Watercolour
24.5x30.9cm
Painting ID:: 54977
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851
Venus
mk238
1840
Watercolour
24.5x30.9cm
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