Tag: François Boucher
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, François Boucher’s Hunting nymphs, with footnotes # 44
Sold for 150,000 EUR in June 2017 These two attendants of Diana, isolated in their verdant forest with their hunting spoils at their side, occupy today the main subject of a painting, which was certainly part of an overdoor panel transformed into an easel painting during the early 19th century. The attribution to François Boucher is…
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45 Works, Leda and the Swan, art from the Greek myth, with footnotes
Paul Beckert was taught in the Dresden and Munich academies. He married Anna Leontine von Frank in 1883, which gained him access to a broad network of patrons in the Prussian aristocracy. He portrayed Emperor William I and Field Marshall Moltke (now in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz) among many others. More on Paul Beckert Leda and…
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 14
(French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris) The Toilette of Venus, c. Date:1751 42 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. (108.3 x 85.1 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, admired Boucher and was his patroness from 1747 until her death in 1764. This famous work was commissioned for the dressing room at…
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