Francois Boucher

Introduction
Francois Boucher was a French painter who lived between 29th September 1703 and 30th May 1770. He was also known as a advocate of the Rococo taste and known for voluptuous and tranquil paintings on the standard themes, well pretty allegories which represent the pastoral or arts occupations, aimed as a type of the two-dimensional furniture. Francois has also been able to paint various portraits of his own illustrious patroness named Madame de Pompadour (Hyde & Melissa, 2006).
Francois was the most renowned and cherished decorative artist of 18th century because most of his personal work reflected on the Rococo style. At the age of 17, Francois started to work for Jean-Francois Cars who was an engraver. Within only three years in the business, he was able to win Grand Prix de Rome the elite. He later went to study in Italy and upon return he was taken in to Academie de peinture et de sculpture being a historical painter and thereafter in 1734 he became a full member of faculty. He later advanced from a professor to the Rector of the Academy as he continued to accelerate in his career (Mellissa & Francois, 2006).
He then became the head of Royal Gobelins Manufactory in the year 1755 and later in 1765 he was named the first painter of the King. He was however inspired by the other artists such as Rubens and Watteau and his early works are seen to celebrate the tranquil and idyllic, and also known to portray landscape and nature with much élan. The art used by Francois portrayed scenes of specific styles of eroticism and this shows us that he forewent the conventional rural innocence typically. The mythological scenes that Francois used are known to be intimately amorous and passionate other than being traditionally epic. The mistress of King Louis XV also referred to as Marquise de Pompadour became very synonymous with the Rococo art because she was a major fan of the Boucher’s and this where we find that the theme of passionate being brought out in... [continues]

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