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François Boucher (1703–1770) | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.

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The Pre-Arranged Flight, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French. Rococo Painting, Jean Honore Fragonard, Rococo Art, Harvard Art Museum, Woman In White, French Rococo, European Paintings, Rococo Style, Classical Art
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The Pre-Arranged Flight | Harvard Art Museums

After studying with both François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Fragonard won the Prix de Rome in 1752. When he returned to Paris in 1761, he was received into the French Academy as agréé (not a full member). Instead of pursuing a career as a painter of historical and religious works, he chose to focus on genre paintings. By the late 1760s, he had a large number of aristocratic clients who delighted in exquisitely crafted depictions of amorous themes. This portrayal of an…

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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake? Marie Antoinette Pictures, Marie Antoinette Portrait Paintings, 1700s Royal Fashion, Rococo Painting Portraits, Rococo Art Paintings, 1700 Paintings, French Rococo Fashion, Monarchy Aesthetic, Rococo Aesthetic Fashion
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Did Marie Antoinette Really Say, “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake?

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