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François Boucher: ''Rinaldo and Armida'' gained Boucher's admission to the Académie royale
 
 
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Name: François Boucher
Birth Date: September 29, 1703
Death Date: May 30, 1770
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: painter, artist

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Biography of François Boucher
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The French painter François Boucher (1703-1770), a leading exponent of the eloquent and frivolous rococo tradition, was perhaps the greatest decorative artist of the 18th century and a consummate draftsman. François Boucher seems to have...


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François Boucher (September 29 1703 – May 30 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, and...


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The Magazine Antiques
Boucher tercentenary.
09/01/2004: 350 words, approx. 1 pages
Francois Boucher was born in Paris in 1703 and was apprenticed at the age of seventeen to Francois Lemoyne, a designer of embroidery patterns. After only three months he went to work for the engraver Jean Francois Cars. After winning the Prix de...
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Contemporary Review
Boucher at the Wallace Collection.
03/01/2005: 3,699 words, approx. 12 pages
THE Director of the Wallace Collection, London, who has a passion for rearranging its contents, has moved the pictures by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) into the Large Gallery to form (with changing displays far off in the new exhibition corridor in the basement) an...
 


 

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