Francois Boucher
French painter Francois Boucher (1703-1770), engraver, decorator. A prominent representative of the Rococo artistic culture. He created numerous series of engravings, illustrated books by Ovid, Boccaccio, Moliere. He worked in many types of decorative and applied arts: he created scenery for operas and performances, paintings for royal tapestry manufactories; performed ornamental paintings of Sevres porcelain, painted fans, performed miniatures. The work of Boucher the painter is extremely versatile, he turned to allegorical and mythological subjects, depicted village fairs and fashionable Parisian life, wrote genre scenes, pastorals, landscapes, portraits.
