id:			125949
accession number:	1948.181.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.181.1
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Music and Dance, 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 1948.181.1

title:				Music and Dance
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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
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - French 18th Century
type:		Painting
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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.
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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.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower left: "f Boucher"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Voluptuous Taste: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour
	opening date:   2008-10-11T00:00:00
	<i>A Voluptuous Taste: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour</i>. 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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>French Painting of the Eighteenth Century</em>, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (December 2-20, 1926).', 'opening_date': '2020-12-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>French Art of the Eighteenth Century</em>, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT (January 23-February 6, 1929).', 'opening_date': '1929-01-23T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	J. Carpenter Gamier, Rookesbury Park, Fareham, England
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	(Sale: Christie's, London, England, July 13, 1895)
	date: July 13, 1895
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	A. Werthemeyer
	date: 1895-
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	Baron Gustav Neufeld von Schoeller (?), Vienna, Austria
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	[Duveen Brothers, New York, NY]
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	Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont, Cap d'Antibes, France
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	Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1948
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1948-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hunter-Stiebel, Penelope, Philippe Le Leyzour, Olivier Baumont, Noémi Rime, Vincent Lievre-Picard, Olivier Baumont, François Bazola, Destouches, and Philibert Cardonne. <em>La Volupté Du Goût: French Painting in the Age of Madame De Pompadour. </em>Paris: Somogy, 2008.
	page number: 	cat. no. 2, p. 102-103
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	Detroit Institute of Arts. <em>The Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2 to 20, 1926</em>. [Detroit]: [Institute of Arts], 1926.
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	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 22A, p. 51 - 53
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IMAGES

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