Psyche’s Entrance into Cupid’s Palace [left fragment], from The Story of Psyche

French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken… Full biography →

Image & data: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 / Public Domain.

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