François Boucher (1703 - 1770)

In the early 1720s, Boucher studied under the painter François Lemoyne (1688–1737), who instilled in him – and in the Venetians Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734) und Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741), both resident in Paris at the time – a feeling for light, elegant compositions and bright, glowing colours. In 1723, he won the Grand Prix of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture, which enabled him to study in Rome from 1727 to 1731. From 1735, he worked for Louis XV (1710–1774) supplying tapestry design to the Gobelin factory in Beauvais, of which he became director in 1755.

Author: Habersatter Thomas

Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 116