Discover watercolorist, academy lecturer, engraver (printmaker) François Boucher

Qualifications: watercolorist, academy lecturer, engraver (printmaker), illustrator, painter, draftsperson, art collector, collector of Dutch and Flemish painting
had a large collection of prints and drawings by Rembrandt, Asselyn, Both, Berchem, Pijnacker, Bloemaert, etc. (Gerson / Meijer 1942/1983, p. 109)

Nationality/school: French

Born: Paris 1703-09-29

Deceased: Paris 1770-05-30

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: father-in-law of the painters Jean-Baptiste Deshayes and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

This person/entity in other databases

39 hits in RKDimages as artist
3 hits in RKDimages as provenance
46 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
8 hits in RKDlibrary as author
4 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Parijs 1720 - 1770
Italië 1725 - 1731
Noordelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1766
Gerson/Meijer 1942/1983, p. 94

Teacher at academy/university: Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Parijs)
Professor in history painting 1735-52; Rector 1752-68

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Galloche, Louis
Troy, Jean-François de
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Baldrighi, Giuseppe
Baudouin, Pierre-Antoine
Bolomey, Benjamin Samuel
Brenet, Nicolas Guy
Challe, Charles Michel-Ange
Charlier, Jacques (ca. 1720-1790)
Cotibert, François
Deshays, Jean-Baptiste
Drouais, François Hubert
Falconet, Pierre Etienne
Fragonard, Jean Honoré
Gravelot, Hubert François
Guay, Jacques
Julliard, Jacques-Nicolas
La Traverse, Charles-François de
Lasalle, Philippe de
Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre
LeMettay, Pierre Charles
Leprince, Jean Baptiste
Menageot, Robert
Siries, Violante Beatrice
West, Robert
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Boucher, Marie-Jeanne
Cozette, Pierre François
Julliard, Jacques-Nicolas
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Albani, Francesco
Barocci, Federico
Berchem, Nicolaes
Bloemaert, Abraham
Galloche, Louis
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Bénard, Jean Baptiste
Berthélemy, Jean Simon
Donaldson, John
Eisen, Charles
Fragonard, Jean Honoré
Guérin, François
Huet, Jean-Baptiste (I)
Leguay, Charles Etienne
Levitsky, Dmitri Grigoreevich
Pillement, Jean
Prud'hon, Pierre Paul
Leihamer, Abraham (II)

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: Christian religious scene, allegory, landscape (genre), mythology, animal painting (genre), history (genre), genre, head (representation), portrait, military genre, figure, game piece (still life), bird scene

Member of

Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Parijs)
member since 1731-1735

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 46 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
8 hits in RKDlibrary as author

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 428-432
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 2, p. 210-212
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 37 (Boucher, François (the elder))
Saur 1992- , vol. 13 (1996), p. 289
Bénézit 1999 , vol. 2, p. 622-625
Kraan 2002 , p. 23
Hartkamp-Jonxis/Smit 2004 , cat.nos. 108, 111a-b, 119, 121a-f
Brakensiek/Polfer 2009 , passim

L. Duclaux, G. Monnier, M. Petiet, 'Dessins Français du XVIIIe Siècle; Amis et Contemporains de P.-J. Mariette', exhib. cat. 38e Exposition du Cabinet des Dessins Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1967
R. Shoolman Slatkin, 'Some Boucher drawings and related prints', Master Drawings 10 (1972), no. 3, p. 264-283
J. Daniels, 'Goerings ''Boucher'' reattributed', The Connoisseur 190 (October 1975), no. 764, p. 90-93
R. Shoolman Slatkin, 'Abraham Bloemaert and François Boucher: Affinity and Relationship', Master Drawings 14 (1976), p. 247-260
E.G. Landau, ' ''A fairytale circumstance'' The influence of stage design on the work of François Boucher', The bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (November 1983), p. 360-378
E. Pagliano, 'Boucher, une lecture de La Fontaine et de quelques autres', Revue de l'art 141 (2003), no. 3, p. 47-56
F. Joulie, 'Natoire and Boucher: Two Studies for a Don Quixote Tapestry', Metropolitan Museum Journal 39 (2004), p. 153-159
P. Stein, 'Notes on the Boucher exhibitions marking the centenary of the artist's birth', The Burlington Magazine 146 (March 2004), p. 169-173
A. Laing, 'La Tour; Boucher', The Burlington Magazine 147 (2005), p. 56-58
W. O'Reilly, 'Boucher's Venus. Recently rediscovered - 170 years after it disappeared', Christie's Magazine, January/February 2005, p. 58-59
W. Steiner, ' Wollust und Grazie', Weltkunst 75 (2005), no. 3, p. 70-73
K. Scott, 'Framing ambition: the interior politics of Mme de Pompadour', Art History 28 (2005), p. 248-290
Ph. Bordes, 'L'essor d'un genre continental: portraits de famille dans les cours européennes, 1665-1780', Studiolo 2006, no. 4, p.77-96
S. Folds McCullagh, '"A Finesse of the Crayon": Eighteenth-Century French Portraits in Pastel', Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies , vol. 32, pt 2, Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2006, p. 72-87, 96
F. Joulie, 'Autour d'un tableau retrouvé pour les petits appartements de Louis XV au chateau de Fontainebleau, les premières pastorales de François Boucher', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'art français 2007, p. 173-189
C. Scholten, 'Van kunst naar kunstnijverheid. Pastorales van François Boucher op Haags porselein', in: Ch. Dumas (ed.), Liber Amicorum Dorine van Sasse van Ysselt. Collegiale bijdragen over teken- en prentkunst, The Hague 2011, p. 287-304

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