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"title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
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"description": "For his aristocratic patrons, Boucher made numerous paintings of intriguing female nudes, thinly veiled as Roman goddesses lounging in luxury. Bonnet\u2019s color chalk-manner prints of similar subjects offered middle-class buyers sumptuous yet affordable versions of Boucher\u2019s wildly popular images. Here, a tiny cupid pleads with Venus for his quiver of arrows as she gazes teasingly at the viewer. Their feathered ends simultaneously conceal and draw attention to her nudity. With cupid\u2019s arrows in her control, it is Venus\u2014rather than cupid\u2014who has the power to arouse feelings of love.",
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