Francois Boucher

A lavishly illustrated book, the first monograph to appear on Boucher for over twenty years, follows the spectacular rise of this eighteenth-century French artist from poverty to the esteemed position of First Painter to King Louis XV. His artistic legacy is analyzed along with detailed explanations of his stylistic development, set within the historical and cultural context of its day.

Jo Hedley is Curator of Pictures Pre-1800 at the Wallace Collection.

Maps of eighteenth-century Paris and environs	p. 8
Boucher's beginnings : 1703-1731	p. 12
The rising star of the Rococo : 1731-40	p. 36
Goddesses, princesses, odalisques and shepherdesses : Boucher in the 1740s	p. 66
Pompadour's painter : 1750s	p. 98
Copyists and critics : Boucher mid-1750s to 1770	p. 130
Reputation and reaction : Boucher's legacy to the present day	p. 158
Boucher : the muse for Sevres porcelain and gold boxes in the Wallace collection by Rosalind Savill	p. 182
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