| Notes: | Catalog of an exhibition at Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie, Besançon, from 9 November 2019 to 2 March 2020
Authors include Vincent Bastien, Maël Bellec, Adrien Bossard, Stéphane Castelluccio, Claire Délery, Anne Forray-Carlier, Françoise Joulie, Lisa Mucciarelli, Jamie Mulherron, Béatrice Quette, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Kristel Smentek, Sylvia Vriz.--Page 4
"Traduction de l'anglais vers le français: Annie Pérez, Jean-François Allain."--Page 2
"The interest shown in a civilization as old and distant as China experienced exceptional development in France in the 18th century, based in particular on the import of art objects that fascinated Europeans. One of the most influential historical painters of his time, François Boucher (1703-1770) became, at the end of the 1730s, the main driving force behind the taste for China in artistic productions through paintings but above all through the drawings he executed and which, through etching, spread into the decorative arts. This book brings together several contributions from art historians at the crossroads of disciplines and techniques. The 130 works presented testify to Boucher's formidable inventiveness and address the question of his sources and his diffusion. Paintings, drawings, prints, tapestries, porcelain, lacquers, wallpapers, furniture thus shed new light on the role of an artist long confined to the mythological nude and pastoral, whose work reveals the sensitivity, curiosity and a new facet of poetry, somewhere between Paris and Beijing. Exhibition 'One of the Rococo provinces. La Chine rêvée de François Boucher' presented at the Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Besançon from November 8, 2019 to March 2, 2020."--Museum website
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-303) and index
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