id: 125950
accession number: 1948.181.2
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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
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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: 68.8 x 123.2 cm (27 1/16 x 48 1/2 in.)
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inscription: Signed 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
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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
J. Carpenter Gamier, Rookesbury Park, Fareham, England
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(Sale: Christie's, London, July 13, 1895)
date: July 13, 1895
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A. Werthemeyer
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Baron Gustav Neufeld von Schoeller (?), Vienna, Austria
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[Duveen Brothers, New York, NY]
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Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1948-
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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
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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
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Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933.
page number: cat. nos. 1 and 117
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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
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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
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IMAGES
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