The Four Seasons by Winter by François Boucher - An Elegant Sleigh Ride

The Four Seasons by Winter

The Four Seasons – Winter c1755 by French Painter Francois Boucher (1703 – 1770), who was also an accomplished draughtsman and etcher. He worked in the Rococo Style and is known for his idyllic classical themes, pastoral scenes and decorative allegories.

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A native of Paris, O Boucher o le atalii o se tusiata e le lauiloa o Nicolas Boucher, o le na tuuina atu ia te ia lana uluai aoaoga faatufugaga. I le sefulufitu o ona tausaga, o se atavali a Boucher sa faamemelo i ai le tusiata o François Lemoyne. Na tofia mulimuli ane e Lemoyne ia Boucher e avea ma ana tagata aperenitisi, ae na o le tolu masina ina ua mavae, na alu o ia e galue mo le tagata togitogiga o Jean-François Cars.

I totonu 1720, na manumalo o ia i le Grand Prix de Roma mo le valiina, ae na te le'i faaaogaina le avanoa taua e suesue ai i Italia seia oo i le lima tausaga mulimuli ane, ona o faafitauli tau tupe i le Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.[1] I lona toe foi mai mai le aoga i Italia sa taliaina o ia i le Académie de peinture et de sculpture na toe faavaeina i luga. 24 Novema 1731. O lana vaega talileleia (vaega talileleia) o lana Rinaldo ma Armida o 1734.

Na faaipoipo Boucher ia Marie-Jeanne Buzeau i le 1733. E toatolu le fanau a le ulugalii. Boucher na avea ma sui faiaoga i 1734 ma sa faatelevaveina lana galuega mai lea tulaga ina ua siitia o ia i le Polofesa ona sosoo ai lea ma le Rector o le Academy, avea ma tagata asiasi ile Royal Gobelins Manufactory ma mulimuli ane ai le Palemia Peintre du Roi (Uluai Tusiata o le Tupu) i totonu 1765. Portrait of Marie-Louise O’Murphy c. 1752

Na maliu Boucher 30 Mae 1770 i lona atunuu moni o Pale. Lona suafa, faatasi ai ma lana pule o Madame de Pompadour, ua tutusa ma le faiga Farani Rococo, ta'ita'ia le au uso Goncourt e tusitusi: “Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, o ai e faailoa mai, fa'atusaina ma fa'atusaina.”

Boucher is famous for saying that nature is “trop verte et mal éclairée” (lanu meamata tele ma leaga le malamalama).

O Boucher sa fesoʻotaʻi ma le tagata togitogiga o Jacques Guay, o le na ia aoao e tusi. Na ia aʻoaʻoina foʻi le tusiata Moravian-Austrian Martin Ferdinand Quadal faʻapea foʻi ma le tusiata neoclassical Jacques-Louis David i 1767.[4] Mulimuli ane, Na faia e Boucher se faasologa o ata o galuega a Guay lea na togitogia e Madame de Pompadour ma tufatufa atu e avea o se voluma matagofie i tagata aloaʻia.