Venus by Boucher
François Boucher 1703 – 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
Boucher took inspiration from artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Antoine Watteau. Boucher's early works celebrate the idyllic and tranquil portrayal of nature and landscape with great elan. However, his art typically forgoes traditional rural innocence to portray scenes with a definitive style of eroticism as his mythological scenes are passionate and intimately amorous rather than traditionally epic.
Venus by Boucher Stamp Collection
The toilet of Venus. Boucher executed this painting for Madame de Pompadour, the powerful, official mistress of Louis XV and Boucher’s most significant patron from 1747 until her death in 1764. It originally decorated the bathing apartments (a luxurious suite of three rooms) in Pompadour’s Château de Bellevue. The construction of her château prompted many of the most important commissions of Rococo painting and sculpture. For a subject that became synonymous with both Boucher and Pompadour, the artist devised a summary of the movement’s key features: overt theatricality, voluptuous flesh, and an asymmetrical unfurling of luxurious furniture, fabric, flowers, and pearls.
Manama 1971 The toilet of Venus
St tome e principe 2009 The toilet of Venus
Manama 1971 The toilet of Venus
Paraguay 1974 The toilet of Venus (detail)
Venus Consoling Love. Venus Consoling Love is a painting by François Boucher, from 1751. The painting depicts a mythological scene, where Venus, the goddess of Love, depicted as a charming and supple young woman, is impersonating the French Rococo's beauty ideals. She is about to disarm Cupid, by taking away his arrows, that he uses when shooting at people to make them fall in love.
Venus sits beside the pond with doves, the goddess symbol. The white doves at her feet, her complexion, the pearls in her hair are just as luxurious like the silk draperies that were wrapped around her, but now are lying on the ground. Boucher painted the artwork with soft pastel tones using a dim silvery light. The painting was made with high technical skill. The principal charm of Rococo art is its sensuality and seductivity.
Manama 1971 Venus consoling Amor
Fujeira 1972 Venus consoling Amor
The Triumph of Venus. is a 1740 painting by François Boucher. It inspired The Birth of Venus by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
The painting was one of the large number of drawings and paintings acquired by Carl Gustaf Tessin during his stay in Paris, but he had to sell it off part of his collection to the king of Sweden in 1749 after he hit financial troubles[1]. The painting is now in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
Sweden 1992 The Triumph of Venus
Rwanda 1974 The Triumph of Venus
Manama 1971 The Triumph of Venus
Rwanda 1974 The Triumph of Venus
Manama 1971 The Triumph of Venus
Paraguay 1988 Venus and Amor 1742