id: 125948 accession number: 1948.181 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.181 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:08.619000 Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy , 1740s. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 69 x 123 cm (27 3/16 x 48 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation 1948.181 title: Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1740s creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1749 current location: 216B French and German creditline: Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Framed: 77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 69 x 123 cm (27 3/16 x 48 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "f Boucher" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'A Voluptuous Taste: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France (October 11, 2008-January 12, 2009); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (February 7-May 17, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2009-02-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'French Painting of the Eighteenth Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (December 2-20, 1926).', 'opening_date': '2020-12-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'French Art of the Eighteenth Century, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT (January 23-February 6, 1929).', 'opening_date': '1929-01-23T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Three French Reigns, Louis XIV, XV, XVI, Royal Northern Hospital, London, 25 Park Lane, (February 21-April 5, 1933).', 'opening_date': '1933-02-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE J. Carpenter Gamier, Rookesbury Park, Fareham, England date: footnotes: citations: (Sale: Christie's, London, England, July 13, 1895) date: July 13, 1895 footnotes: citations: A. Werthemeyer date: 1895- footnotes: citations: Baron Gustav Neufeld von Schoeller (?), Vienna, Austria date: footnotes: citations: [Duveen Brothers, New York, NY] date: footnotes: citations: Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont, Cap d'Antibes, France date: footnotes: citations: Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Christie, Manson & Woods. Catalogue of Important Pictures by Old Masters and of the Early English School: Including Masterpieces of Murillo, Jacob Ruysdael and Weenix, from the Clewer Manor Collection, Also Choice Examples of Watteau, Hobbema & W.V. De Velde the Property of a Nobleman, Also the Family Portraits of the Late Sir John Chandos Reade, Sixth Baronet, Fine Works of Canaletto & Rembrandt, the Property of J. Carpenter Garnier, Esq., the Celebrated Engraved Portrait of Admiral Viscount Nelson, by J. Hoppner, R.A., the Property of the Rt. Hon. Viscound Bridport, and Other Fine Portraits by T. Gainsborough, R.A., Sir J. Reynolds, G. Romney, &C. London: Printed by Wm. Clowes & Sons, Ltd, 1895. page number: url: Detroit Institute of Arts. The Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2 to 20, 1926. [Detroit]: [Institute of Arts], 1926. page number: cat. no. 3 url: Wadsworth Atheneum. Loan Exhibition of French Art of the Eighteenth Century: Morgan Memorial, Hartford, January 23, to February 6, 1929. [Hartford]: [Morgan Memorial], 1929. page number: cat. no. I url: Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933. page number: cat. nos. 1 and 117 url: Francis, Henry S. “A Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 10 (1948). page number: pp. 223-4, 228 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141515 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 488 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n89 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n159 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n159 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Reproduced: cat. 22, p. 51 - 53 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 177 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n197 Ananoff, Alexandre, "The New Boucher Catalogue," Burlington Magazine, CXXI (July 1979). page number: 444 ("Letters" section); url: Boucher, François, Alexandre Ananoff, and Daniel Wildenstein. L'opera completa di Boucher. Milano: Rizzoli, 1980. page number: p. 100, nos. 194 and 195 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned p. 51-53; Reproduced: p. 52 url: Landau, Ellen G. “‘A Fairytale Circumstance’ the Influence of Stage Design on the Work of François Boucher.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 9 (1983). page number: 360-72 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159834 Bailey, Colin B. The First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution. New York, N.Y.: Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985. page number: p. 128. no. 17 url: Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope, Philippe Le Leyzour, Olivier Baumont, Noémi Rime, Vincent Lievre-Picard, Olivier Baumont, François Bazola, Destouches, and Philibert Cardonne. La Volupté Du Goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame De Pompadour. Paris: Somogy, 2008. page number: cat. no. 2, p. 102-103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181/1948.181_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181/1948.181_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181/1948.181_full.tif