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Woman Standing

Date unknown

François Boucher

(French, 1703–1770)

after Jean Antoine Watteau

(French, 1684–1721)

France, 18th century

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Platemark: 32.3 x 21.6 cm (12 11/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.314

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Description

One of the most lavish tributes paid to the memory of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was the publication of four volumes of more than 600 prints (1726-35) after all the paintings and drawings known by the master. Boucher was one of the printmakers who worked on the project, which enabled him to study Watteau's draftsmanship, one of the most significant lessons of his early career.

Artist biography

François Boucher

French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers.

Exhibition history

The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints," no catalogue.

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL (2/3/2005 - 5/15/2005): "Paper Museums: The reproductove Print in Europe, 1500-1800", exh. cat. no.12A.

Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934).

Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8, 1983-June 3, 1984).

Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987).

Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).

Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 3-May 15, 2005); Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY (September 13-December 3, 2005).

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