Vertumna et Pomona, par Jean Ranc
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Vertumna et Pomona, par Jean Ranc
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Why is French silver so rare in museums? Because King Louis XIV melted most of it down into coins. How this one escaped the king’s giant meltdown at http://bit.ly/I9NKXh
Portrait de madame Baudouin, fille du peintre, vers 1755-1760Auteur : François Boucher (1703-1770)
Robe a l’anglaise ca. 1770
From Artfund
Lady in Blue (c. 1770) Thomas Gainsborough
La danse du petit chien, 1758 by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
This panting illustrates the genre of pastoral invented by Boucher in which he achieved a smashing success. Unique blend of convention and naturalism, fantasy and observation, of innocence and ambiguity. His art seduces us with its artificiality and even unreality, the deliberate intention of the artist that creates an “amazing vortex of escape”.
For Goncourt, “Boucher is one of those men who express, personify and embody the taste of a century. French taste of the eighteenth century manifested itself in him throughout the peculiarity of his character. “
Lagrenée, Louis-Jean-Francois - Psyche Surprises the Sleeping Cupid
Table Clock of Louis XV, 1750. Bronze, gilding, porcelain
Corner Cabinet, French, about 1744–52. Cabinet by Jacques Dubois; clock movement by Étienne Le Noir; enamel by Antoine-Nicolas Martinière. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 79.DA.66
