François Boucher

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Rococo artist human painter printmaker

François Boucher was an 18th-century French painter and printmaker renowned for his playful Rococo style, mythological scenes, and pastoral idylls, and for serving as first painter to King Louis XV.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Rococo artist →
human →
painter →
printmaker →
artisticStyle playful Rococo style →
countryOfCitizenship France →
dateOfBirth 1703-09-29 →
dateOfDeath 1770-05-30 →
depicts allegorical scenes →
mythological scenes →
pastoral idylls →
employer French royal court →
Louis XV of France →
fieldOfWork painting →
printmaking →
fullName François Boucher →
genre erotic art →
mythological painting →
pastoral painting →
portrait painting →
religious painting →
influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard →
influencedBy Antoine Watteau →
François Lemoyne →
memberOf Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →
movement Rococo →
notableWork Diana Leaving the Bath →
Madame de Pompadour →
Pastoral with a Couple near a Fountain →
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour →
The Birth of Venus →
The Breakfast →
The Four Seasons (series) →
The Rape of Europa →
The Rising of the Sun →
The Setting of the Sun →
The Turkish Bath →
surface form: "The Toilet of Venus"

The Triumph of Venus →
occupation painter →
printmaker →
patron Louis XV of France →
Madame de Pompadour →
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France →
Paris →
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France →
Paris →
positionHeld Premier peintre du Roi →
first painter to King Louis XV →
studentOf François Lemoyne →
workLocation Paris →
Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard → educatedBy → François Boucher →
François Boucher → fullName → François Boucher →
Antoine Watteau → influenced → François Boucher →
Jean-Honoré Fragonard → influencedBy → François Boucher →
Étienne-Maurice Falconet → influencedBy → François Boucher →
subject surface form: "Église Saint-Roch de Paris"
Madame de Pompadour → supported → François Boucher →
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