Table Clock of Louis XV, 1750. Bronze, gilding, porcelain
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
The Toilette of Venus
artist: Francois Boucher
date: 1751
location: MET, New York
The Embarkation for Cythera (detail) 1717
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 –1721)
Also known as “Voyage to Cythera” or “Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera”
Louvre Museum
Daphnis and Chloe, by François Boucher
The Guitarist (1757)
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French Rococo Era painter,1725-1805) -Young Girl Weeping for her Dead Bird
Thomas Gainsborough, Artist’s Daughters With A Cat, 1759-61
Jeune femme au manchon, par François Boucher (1703-1770)
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.
