id: 107225 accession number: 1925.1217 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1217 updated: 2025-02-08 23:37:23.107000 Antoine Watteau, c. 1727. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), after Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). Etching and engraving; sheet: 37.3 x 26.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.); platemark: 35.1 x 24.2 cm (13 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi Co. 1925.1217 title: Antoine Watteau title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1727 creation date earliest: 1722 creation date latest: 1732 current location: creditline: Gift of P. & D. Colnaghi Co. copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: etching and engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Inventaire du Fonds Français 65 --- CREATORS * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist 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. * Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.3 x 26.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.); Platemark: 35.1 x 24.2 cm (13 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). title: Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800 opening date: 2005-02-03T00:00:00 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). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Zorach, Rebecca, and Elizabeth Rodini. Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800. Chicago, Ill: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2005. page number: cat. 12A url: Beeny, Emily A., Davide Gasparotto, Richard Rand, and Antoine Watteau. Watteau at Work: La Surprise. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 1-2, fig. 1. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1217/1925.1217_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1217/1925.1217_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.1217/1925.1217_full.tif