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The Interrupted Sleep by Francois Boucher Rococo Painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, Francois Boucher, Rococo Art, Istoria Artei, 18th Century Paintings, Francisco Goya, French Rococo, Paul Gauguin

Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.

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The Pre-Arranged Flight, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French. Rococo Painting, Jean Honore Fragonard, Rococo Art, Harvard Art Museum, Woman In White, French Rococo, European Paintings, Classical Art, Art Movement

After studying with both François Boucher and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Fragonard won the Prix de Rome in 1752. When he returned to Paris in 1761, he was received into the French Academy as agréé (not a full member). Instead of pursuing a career as a painter of historical and religious works, he chose to focus on genre paintings. By the late 1760s, he had a large number of aristocratic clients who delighted in exquisitely crafted depictions of amorous themes. This portrayal of an…

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