DETAILS
- Artist
- François Boucher
- Date
- 1720
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Plate: 10 9/16 × 8 1/16 in. (26.8 × 20.5 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
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THE ARTIST
François Boucher
1703–1770 · FranceFrançois Boucher, the celebrated Rococo master, captured the 18th century's taste with his idyllic scenes, mythological tales, and portraits of figures like Madame de Pompadour.
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