id: 109159 accession number: 1927.316 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.316 updated: 2025-02-08 23:47:50.073000 The Proposal, c. 1726–35. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), after Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). Etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.316 title: The Proposal title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1726–35 creation date earliest: 1721 creation date latest: 1770 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Dacier & Vuaflart Vol. III --- 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: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection opening date: 1934-06-05T04:00:00 Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934). title: Decorative Style opening date: 1961-09-08T04:00:00 Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 1961-January 7, 1962). 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: Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts opening date: 1983-11-08T05:00:00 Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8, 1983-June 3, 1984). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Eighteenth Century Decorative Prints." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 15, no. 7 (July 1928): 148-152 page number: Mentioned: p. 149; Reproduced: p. 151 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137139 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.316/1927.316_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.316/1927.316_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.316/1927.316_full.tif