Venus and Cupid by François Boucher - The Gods of Love In Repose

Venus and Cupid

Venus and Cupid by French Painter UFrancois 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 is a charming mythological painting showing Venus the Goddess of Love and Cupid the God of Love in the nude relaxing on a cloud on a cliff high up in the sky.

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Venus has a robe that she is partially wearing around her back with her arm through its sleeves resting her head on her hand with her elbow providing support that is placed on a boulder that is behind her, propping up her back.

Laying beside her is cupid, with an arrow in his hand and a quiver with a large amount of arrows in it; as he relaxes on an off pink cloth that also has mother dove embracing her two of her dove offspring.

In the background is a beautiful blue sky that is filled with volumes of clouds white, blue and green in color

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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.

Kwi 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, ngenxa yeengxaki zemali kwiRoyal Academy yePainting and Sculpture.[1] Ukubuya kwakhe ekufundeni e-Italiya wamkelwa kwi-Académie de peinture et de sculpture ehlaziyiweyo. 24 EyeNkanga 1731. Iqhekeza lakhe lokwamkela (iqhekeza lokwamkela) yayinguRinaldo wakhe noArmida we 1734.

UBoucher watshata noMarie-Jeanne Buzeau 1733. Esi sibini sasinabantwana abathathu kunye. UBoucher waba lilungu leFaculty 1734 kwaye umsebenzi wakhe wakhawuleza ukusuka kweli nqanaba njengoko wonyuselwa kwiNjingalwazi emva kweRector yeAcademy, ukuba ngumhloli kwiRoyal Gobelins Manufactory kwaye ekugqibeleni iNkulumbuso uPeintre du Roi (Umzobi wokuQala woKumkani) kwi 1765. Portrait of Marie-Louise O’Murphy c. 1752

UBoucher wasweleka 30 UCanzibe 1770 kwindawo yakhe yaseParis. Igama lakhe, kunye naleyo yomxhasi wakhe uMadame de Pompadour, sele ifana nesimbo saseFransi iRococo, 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