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🎨 #FrançoisBoucher, French painter and set designer, was #BOTD 29 September 1703. #Art #Painting
September 29, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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September 28, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Thank you @frickcollection.bsky.social and April Tonin for another fun "Tabletop Atelier"!

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March 14, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Madame de Pompadour, vers 1756-1759 - François Boucher (1703–1770), peintre rococo français, célèbre pour ses scènes pastorales, mythologiques et ses portraits sensuels, emblématiques de l'élégance et de la légèreté du XVIIIe siècle.
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April 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Le Bain de Vénus, 1746.
François Boucher (1703-1770) : peintre français emblématique du style rococo, premier peintre du roi Louis XV et favori de la marquise de Pompadour, célèbre pour ses scènes mythologiques et pastorales.
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September 28, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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“The Love Letter” by François Boucher (French) - Oil on canvas / 1750 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #FrancoisBoucher #FrançoisBoucher #Boucher #NationalGalleryofArt #NGA #Rococo #FrenchArt #PastoralArt #art #artText #arte #BlueskyArt #LoveLetter #1750s #LoveArt #FrenchArtist
French artist François Boucher made the pastoral his signature language, and by the mid-1700s, he was in high demand for decorative paintings that blended sensual surfaces (silk, skin, flowers) with storytelling. Painted in 1750, this scene is less “country life” than a Rococo fantasy of feeling, where tenderness, leisure, and desire can unfold safely in a cultivated nature. A dove (a classic messenger of love and fidelity) turns private emotion into action as affection becomes a letter, sealed and sent. Two young women sit close together on a mossy bank in a shaded woodland clearing. Both have fair, peach-toned skin, softly rouged cheeks, and carefully styled curls. The woman on the right sits slightly higher, her posture relaxed and protective as one arm circles her companion’s shoulders and she tilts her head and smiles with a tender, knowing expression. She wears a rose-pink dress with a striped skirt and airy white sleeves plus pink blossoms and small blue-yellow flowers cluster in her hair. The woman on the left leans into her, gazing up in profile. Her lavender dress shimmers like silk, warmed with gold highlights, and small blue flowers pin back her brown curls. Their bare feet peek from beneath their hems, emphasizing an intimate, unguarded moment rather than formal display. Between them rests a white dove with a blue ribbon tied at its neck. A pale envelope is held in the right woman’s hand, as if the message is about to be entrusted to/from the bird. Around them, a small pastoral “stage” includes 5 sheep and an alert black-and-white hound. A basket of flowers spills color at the lower edge. Behind, a stone structure rises, topped by a reclining lion sculpture. Tall trees arc overhead, and the distant hills dissolve into blue haze beneath a softly clouded sky. Whether innocence, desire, or the thrilling act of sending a secret, these women’s closeness feels like mutual confiding and encouraging so friendship is a shelter and catalyst.
March 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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#FrançoisBoucher was born in Paris #OnThisDay in 1703, painting canvasses that exemplified the gaiety, frivolity & sensuality of #Rococo #art in #France under the patronage of Madame de #Pompadour, whom he painted in 1756:

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September 30, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
November 21, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
February 19, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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La Blonde Odalisque, 1751 - François Boucher (1703–1770), peintre français rococo, célèbre pour ses scènes pastorales, mythologiques et portraits sensuels, devenu Premier peintre du roi Louis XV.
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June 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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#FrançoisBoucher (1703-70), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of a Young Lady Holding a Pug Dog
ca. 1745
Art Gallery NSW
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September 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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La toilette de Vénus, 1751 - François Boucher (1703-1770), peintre français majeur du style rococo, célèbre pour ses scènes mythologiques, pastorales et sensuelles, et peintre favori de la cour de Louis XV.
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March 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
March 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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x.com/missccsinclair Looking like a contemporary version of ‘The Blonde Odalisque’ by #FrancoisBoucher 📸 photo by Sekushi
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
November 21, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
December 19, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
March 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Boucher was not without heart though. He sent the young Jean-Honore' to study under Jean Simeon Chardin. Once he had gained some maturity and experience, he did return to work with Boucher.

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April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
January 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
December 17, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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François Boucher #francoisboucher
February 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Welcome back the sun - Happy Solstice!

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painting of an embodiment of the sun as a handsome nude male surrounded by heavenly figures
December 22, 2024 at 8:08 PM
“The Triumph of Venus.” François Boucher (French; 1703–1770). Oil on canvas, 1740. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.

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January 18, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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🎨 #FrançoisBoucher, French Rococo painter, #DOTD 30 May 1770. #Art #Painting
May 30, 2026 at 4:06 AM