The Toilet of Venus
The Toilet of Venus c1746 By by French Painter François Boucher (1703 – 1770); also known as a draftsman, engraver and decorator in the French Rococo style, 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.
This version of The Toilet of Venus shows Venus being taken care of by her hand maidens, with one handing her flowers from a gold platter, another gathering a red silk dress with gold accents, while another attaches a string of pearls to her head; and lastly a cherub holds a string of pearls in its hand while leaning on her leg.
The Toilet of Venus is a retouched digital art reproduction of a public domain image which you can purchase as a kuchapisha turubai mtandaoni.
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Mzaliwa wa Paris, Boucher alikuwa mtoto wa mchoraji asiyejulikana sana Nicolas Boucher, ambaye alimpa mafunzo yake ya kwanza ya kisanii. Katika umri wa miaka kumi na saba, mchoro wa Boucher ulivutiwa na mchoraji François Lemoyne. Lemoyne baadaye alimteua Boucher kama mwanafunzi wake, lakini baada ya miezi mitatu tu, alikwenda kufanya kazi kwa mchongaji Jean-François Cars.
Katika 1720, alishinda Grand Prix de Rome kwa uchoraji, lakini hakuchukua fursa hiyo ya kusoma nchini Italia hadi miaka mitano baadaye, kutokana na matatizo ya kifedha katika Chuo cha Kifalme cha Uchoraji na Uchongaji.[1] Aliporudi kutoka masomoni nchini Italia alilazwa katika Chuo cha Academie de peinture et de sculpture. 24 Novemba 1731. Kipande chake cha mapokezi (kipande cha mapokezi) alikuwa Rinaldo wake na Armida wa 1734.
Boucher alifunga ndoa na Marie-Jeanne Buzeau 1733. Wenzi hao walikuwa na watoto watatu pamoja. Boucher alikua mshiriki wa kitivo 1734 na kazi yake iliongezeka kutoka hatua hii alipopandishwa cheo kuwa Profesa kisha Mkuu wa Chuo hicho, kuwa mkaguzi katika Kiwanda cha Royal Gobelins Manufactory na hatimaye Premier Peintre du Roi (Mchoraji wa kwanza wa Mfalme) katika 1765. Picha ya Marie-Louise O'Murphy c. 1752
Boucher alikufa 30 Mei 1770 katika mji wake wa kuzaliwa wa Paris. Jina lake, pamoja na ile ya mlinzi wake Madame de Pompadour, imekuwa sawa na mtindo wa Kifaransa wa Rococo, akiongoza ndugu wa Goncourt kuandika: “Boucher ni mmoja wa wanaume hao ambao wanawakilisha ladha ya karne, wanaojieleza, kubinafsisha na kumwilisha.”
Boucher ni maarufu kwa kusema kwamba asili ni “kijani kibichi sana na mwanga hafifu” (kijani kibichi sana na mwanga mbaya).
Boucher alihusishwa na mchongaji wa vito Jacques Guay, ambaye alifundisha kuchora. Pia alimshauri mchoraji wa Moravian-Austria Martin Ferdinand Quadal pamoja na mchoraji wa mamboleo Jacques-Louis David katika. 1767.[4] Baadae, Boucher alitengeneza msururu wa michoro ya kazi za Guay ambazo Madame de Pompadour kisha akachonga na kusambazwa kama juzuu lililofungwa vizuri kwa wahudumu waliopendelewa.
