Allégorie de la Peinture by François Boucher - A Captivating Beauty

Allégorie de la Peinture

Allégorie de la Peinture (Allegory of Painting) c1765 by French Painter François Boucher (1703 – 1770); also known as a draftsman, engraver and decorator in the French Rococo style, that was well known for his lavish mythological, allegorical and erotic motifs and was the court painter of Louis XV and a favorite of the Marquise de Pompadour.

Though a year apart in there creation Allégorie de la Peinture is considered to be a companion piece to Allégorie de la Musique, as it is similar in many respects starting with the figures floating in the sky atop of large clouds, with a young lady and putti as the main elements in the scene.

As the name of the artwork suggest, this scene interprets the meaning of painting by showing an attractive young woman reclining on a bundle of cloth, painting in white an outline of the winged putti that is posing for her on a round canvas.

This canvas is being held up by another putti that is holding a laurel leaf wreath in its right hand; while yet another putti looks on, by poking his head out from behind the round canvas by the right side of the posing putti, that is holding a flaming torch in its right hand sitting by a gold and blue silk quiver filled with arrows.

Behind the young lady we can see a rolled canvas, a painters palette with paint on it and a collection of six paint brushes.

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Allégorie de la Peinture is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a art print online.

Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org

A 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.

In 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.[1] 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.

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Boucher 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. Portrait of Marie-Louise O’Murphy c. 1752

Boucher 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.”

Boucher is famous for saying that nature is “trop verte et mal éclairée” (too green and badly lit).

Boucher was associated with the gemstone engraver Jacques Guay, whom he taught to draw. He also mentored the Moravian-Austrian painter Martin Ferdinand Quadal as well as the neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David in 1767.[4] Later, Boucher made a series of drawings of works by Guay which Madame de Pompadour then engraved and distributed as a handsomely bound volume to favored courtiers