id: 125950 accession number: 1948.181.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.181.2 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:08.631000 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: 68.8 x 123.2 cm (27 1/16 x 48 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation 1948.181.2 title: 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: 68.8 x 123.2 cm (27 1/16 x 48 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed left: "F Boucher" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Voluptuous Taste: French Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour opening date: 2008-10-11T00:00:00 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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, July 13, 1895) date: July 13, 1895 footnotes: citations: A. Werthemeyer date: footnotes: citations: Baron Gustav Neufeld von Schoeller (?), Vienna, Austria date: footnotes: citations: [Duveen Brothers, New York, NY] 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 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: 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. 22B, 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 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 31 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181.2/1948.181.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181.2/1948.181.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.181.2/1948.181.2_full.tif