François Boucher : seductive visions /

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Author / Creator:Hedley, Jo
Imprint:London : Wallace Collection, c2004.
Description:208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5646401
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Varying Form of Title:Seductive visions
Other authors / contributors:Boucher, François, 1885-1966
Wallace Collection (London, England)
ISBN:0900785721
Notes:Published to accompany the exhibition "Boucher: Seductive Visions" held at the Wallace Collection, 30 Sept. 2004 - 17 April 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Maps of eighteenth-century Paris and environs
  • I. Boucher's beginnings : 1703-1731
  • II. The rising star of the Rococo : 1731-40
  • III. Goddesses, princesses, odalisques and shepherdesses : Boucher in the 1740s
  • IV. Pompadour's painter : 1750s
  • V. Copyists and critics : Boucher mid-1750s to 1770
  • VI. Reputation and reaction : Boucher's legacy to the present day
  • App. Boucher : the muse for Sevres porcelain and gold boxes in the Wallace collection by Rosalind Savill.