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Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2015 Meet the Masters: Highlights from the Scottish

Meet the Masters: Boucher: three scenes

Lecturer: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney

10 & 11 June 2015

Lecture summary:

This lecture explores the three Pastoral Scenes by François Boucher in the Scottish National Gallery , discussing the personal, institutional and generic contexts in which they were produced and understood and examining through them whether the oft-repeated criticisms of Boucher’s unnatural and unrealistic pastoral style were in fact a product of misunderstanding both of the genre and the complexity of the painter’s compositions. The Lecture will argue that Boucher’s enjoyment of both artifice and nature, and his unashamed love of painting as decoration, demonstrate not his moral debauchery and superficiality but his keen and essential grasp of the painter’s role and the possibilities of painting in the eighteenth century.

Slide list:

1. Gustaf Lumberg, Portrait of François Boucher (1741, Pastel, Musée du , Paris) 2. François Boucher, and Vulcan (1732, Oil on Canvas, Musée du Louvre, Paris) 3. François Boucher, Portrait of Madame Pompadour (1748, Oil on Canvas, Munich, ) 4. François Boucher, Odalisque , (c1745, Oil on Canvas, Paris: Louvre) 5. François Boucher, Study of a woman , (Chalk, Pencil on Paper, New York, Cooper Hewitt) 6. François Boucher, The Milliner (Morning) 1746 Oil on Canvas, , Stockholm, Nationalmuseum 7. François Boucher, Pastoral Scene (The offering to the Village Girl), c1762, Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of Scotland 8. François Boucher, Pastoral Scene (The Gallant or Aimiable Pastoral), c.1762, Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of Scotland 9. François Boucher, Pastoral Scene (The sleeping market garden girl), c.1762, Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of Scotland 10. Jean-Etienne Liotard, Portrait of Charles Simon Favart (1757, Pastel: Private Collection) 11. C-N Cochin (del), Aug de Saint Aubin (Sculp), Portrait of Jean Monnet (Engraving, 1752, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) 12. François Hubert Drouais, Portrait of Madame Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray, 1727– 1772 (Madame Favart), 1757, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 13. Title page of “Bastien et Bastienne’ , Paris 1753 (Paris : BNF)

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14. François Boucher, The Agreable Lesson (c.1748, Oil on Canvas, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria) 15. François Boucher, The Mysterious Basket (c.1748, Oil on canvas, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria 16. or , The (1508, Oil on Canvas, Paris: Louvre) 17. , Et in Ego (the Arcadian Shepherds), 1637 , Oil on Canvas, Paris, Louvre 18. de Saint Aubin, View of the Salon of 1759, (Etching, Paris: BNF) 19. Gabriel de Saint Aubin, View of the Salon of 1765, ( Watercolour, Paris, Louvre) 20. François Boucher, The Rising of the Sun (1753, Oil on canvas, : ) 21. François Boucher, The Setting of the Sun (1753, Oil on Canvas, London, Wallace Collection) 22. Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Diderot (1773, New York, Metropolitan Museum) 23-32: Repetitions and Details of nos. 7, 8 and 9

Reference:

Boucher, François, and Wallace Collection (London), François Boucher: Seductive Visions : [The Wallace Collection London, 30 September 2004 - 17 April 2005] (London: Wallace Collection, 2004) François Boucher, 1703-1770: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 17, 1986- May 4, 1986, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, May 27-August 17, 1986, Reunion Des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais, Paris, September 19, 1986-January 5, 1987 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986) Hyde, Melissa Lee, and Mark Ledbury, Rethinking Boucher (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2006) Hyde, Melissa Lee, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics (Getty Publications, 2006) Isherwood, Robert, Farce and Fantasy : Popular Entertainment in Eighteenth-Century Paris (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

For access to all past lecture notes visit: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members/current-members/member-events/meet-the-masters/