id:			86517
accession number:	2016.7
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.7
updated:		2024-06-19 12:50:00.127000

Andromeda (Andromède), 1734. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Etching ; sheet: 32.5 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2016.7

title:				Andromeda (Andromède)
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creation date:			1734
creation date earliest:		1734
creation date latest:		1734
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	Etching 
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Baudicour 42, state I/IV

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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: Sheet: 32.5 x 23.5 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
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	description:	antique laid paper
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	inscription:	In plate, lower left: f. Boucher invt
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	inscription:	Trimmed within plate mark
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   2016-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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