François Boucher

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, september 29

François Boucher, September 29, 1703–May 30, 1770, was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer associated with the Rococo style.

Born in Paris, Boucher trained with his father and briefly with François Lemoyne. He won the Grand Prix in 1723, worked as an engraver, traveled to Italy in 1728 and became a full member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1734.

Boucher produced mythological paintings, pastoral scenes, portraits, landscapes and designs for tapestries, porcelain and the theater. Patronized by Madame de Pompadour and the court of Louis XV, he was appointed First Painter to the King and director of the Académie Royale in 1765.

Portrait of François Boucher by Gustaf Lundberg, 1741–1742
Pastel on prepared blue paper mounted on canvas, 26.6 x 20.3 in
Louvre Museum, Paris

The Triumph of Venus, 1740
Oil on canvas, 51.2 x 63.8 in
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Diana Leaving Her Bath, 1742
Oil on canvas, 22.4 x 28.7 in
Louvre Museum, Paris

Leda and the Swan, 1742
Oil on canvas, 23.5 x 29.3 in
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Resting Girl, 1752
Oil on canvas, 23.2 x 28.7 in
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Venus and Vulcan, 1754
Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 28.1 in
The Wallace Collection, London

Toilette of Venus, after 1743 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 34.2 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, c 1754
Oil on canvas, 64.6 x 28 in
The Wallace Collection, London

Madame de Pompadour, 1756
Oil on canvas, 80.7 x 63.4 in
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Dovecote, 1758
Oil on canvas, 18.6 x 28 in
Saint Louis Art Museum

Allegory of Painting, 1765
Oil on canvas, 39.9 x 51.2 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Reclining Female Nude, Seen from Behind, early 1730s
Red and white chalk on light brown paper, 10.4 x 12.8 in
Private Collection

François Boucher, Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun, c 1765 Brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper, 18.1 x 15.8 in (octagonal) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun, c 1765
Brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper, 18.1 x 15.8 in (octagonal)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

François Boucher, A Putto with Two Torches, 18th century Colored chalks on green-gray paper, with a border line in brown ink, 8.7 x 10.8 in Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany

A Putto with Two Torches, 18th century
Colored chalks on green-gray paper, with a border line in brown ink, 8.7 x 10.8 in
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany

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Caravaggio

On May 22, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian, september 29

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610, was an Italian painter.

He worked primarily in Rome before spending his final years in Naples, Malta and Sicily.

Caravaggio was known for closely observed figures, stark contrasts of light and dark, and religious scenes presented with contemporary models and settings.

Portrait of Caravaggio, c 1621
Chalk on blue paper
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence

Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c 1595–1596
Oil on canvas, 36.3 x 50.1 in
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Martha and Mary Magdalene, c 1598
Oil and tempera on canvas, 39.4 x 52.9 in
Detroit Institute of Arts

The Entombment, c 1600–1604
Oil on canvas, 118.1 x 79.9 in
Vatican Museums, Vatican City

Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1601
Oil on canvas, 90.6 x 68.9 in
Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1601
Oil on canvas, 90.6 x 68.9 in
Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

The Supper at Emmaus, 1601
Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 77.2 in
National Gallery, London

Doubting Thomas, c 1601
Oil on canvas, 42.1 x 57.5 in
Picture Gallery of Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany

Amor Vincit Omnia, 1602
Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 44.5 in
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

The Taking of Christ, 1602
Oil on canvas, 52.6 x 66.7 in
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Saint Jerome, c 1606
Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 60.2 in
Galleria Borghese, Rome

The Seven Works of Mercy, 1606–1607
Oil on canvas, 152.8 x 100.4 in
Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, Italy

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, c 1608
Oil on canvas, 141.7 x 204.7 in
St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

David with the Head of Goliath, 1609–1610
Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 39.8 in
Galleria Borghese, Rome

The Denial of Saint Peter, 1610
Oil on canvas, 37 x 49.4 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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