short biography

François Boucher (b. 1703, Paris, d. 1770, Paris) was a rococo painter and the Director of the Paris Academy and First painter of the king since 1765. Famous works are: "The bath of the Diana", 1742; "Toilet of Venus", 1751; Ceiling fresco, Salle du Conseil, Château de Fontainebleau, 1753; "Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour", 1756; amongst others.

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Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Alte Pinakothek, München Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig Indianapolis Museum of Art Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louvre Paris Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Musee de Beaux-Arts, Caen Musée De Tessé, Le Mans Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besancon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours National Gallery of Art, Washington ° Nationalmuseum Stockholm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Neue Pinakothek, München (geschlossen) Phoenix Art Museum Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow . Reading Public Museum ° Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame Speed Art Museum, Louisville Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS THE CLARK Williamstown The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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