Saturday, 2 March 2013
Boucher: The Love Letter
Posted on 12:14 by Unknown
François Boucher: The Love Letter
oil on canvas, 1750
Washington DC National Gallery of Art
(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=46027&image=8634&c=)
no copyright infringement intended
It was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour for her chateau at Bellevue. The scene is a pastoral idyll. The young shepherdesses wear fine silks, and a contemporary audience would understand an
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