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Paintings by Boucher for the Hôtel Bergeret de Frouville, Paris

· Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

· Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds

· Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa

· Venus at Vulcan’s Forge

This painting belongs to a series of six that Boucher painted for Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville’s hôtel in Paris. Four of them are at the Kimbell Art Museum and the other two at the Getty Museum.

loquaciousconnoisseur:

Paintings by Boucher for the Hôtel Bergeret de Frouville, Paris

· Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

· Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds

· Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa

· Venus at Vulcan’s Forge

This painting belongs to a series of six that Boucher painted for Jean-François Bergeret de Frouville’s hôtel in Paris. Four of them are at the Kimbell Art Museum and the other two at the Getty Museum.

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