Vénus désarmant Cupidon
Vénus désarmant Cupidon (Venus disarming Cupid) From The Workshop of 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 wonderful Rococo style painting of Venus, the Roman Goddess of Love and Beauty taking away the arrows and quiver from her baby son Cupid the God of Love and Desire and who was also the son of the God of War Mars.
Venus is in the nude is relaxing on large cushion of clouds holding aloft in her right hand by a large blue ribbon a red and gold quiver filled with golden arrows, just out of reach of cupid who is also in the nude, leaning against the right side of her hip trying to reach his quiver filled with arrows.
As she looks down at him, she holds a single gold arrow in her left hand with her elbow resting on her blue and white robes, that are placed on what looks to be a sofa or chair of some sort.
By the legs of Venus are two doves kissing and a bundle of flowers to their right comprising red, white, pink. luhlaza, orange and yellow colors.
Vénus désarmant Cupidon is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Ulwazi Olungezantsi Oluthathwe Ku 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.
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
