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English: "With his pupil Fragonard, François Boucher is rightly held to epitomise the rococo sensibility in French eighteenth-century painting. Refined in intelligence as much as in taste, Boucher's art is a celebration of surface, not superficiality. His love of silks, satins, velvets, furs and brocades is exceeded only by his devotion to the pearly properties of youthful skin, especially female skin. Whether painting the mythical subjects that characterise his larger commissions, or, as
here, an intimate portrait of his wife, Marie-Jeanne Buseau, Boucher brought to the task an attention to detail and a sense of delight that are definitively rococo.This painting wittily, and not at either's expense, juxtaposes the very different beauties of a charming woman and her lapdog. The latter is a canine inclusion not without sexual connotation in the iconography of the period - though Boucher can hardly be thought to portray his spouse in the role of teasing mistress. The slightly generic cast of her face, echoing those of the nymphs and shepherdesses prolifically rendered by this artist, is attributable to the fact that Marie-Jeanne was Boucher's model for almost two decades." [1]
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Sejarah objek |
by 1906 date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : C.J. Wertheimer, London
by 1906date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 - before 1925date QS:P,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Joseph Bardac, Paris
by 1932date QS:P,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Hector Pétin, Paris
by 1964date QS:P,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 - 5 Maret 1970: Mme. Hector Pétin, Paris
5 Maret 1970: purchased by Agnew's, London, at an anonymous sale at Palais Galliera (auction house), lot no. 16
Oktober 1970: purchased by James Fairfax (1933), Bowral, from Agnew's, London
4 Juni 1992: given to Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, by James Fairfax, Bowral
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Exhibition history |
Exposition François Boucher (1703-1770), Hôtel de Jean Charpentier, Paris, 9 Juni 1932–10 Juli 1932, kat. no. 99, p. 44.
Réhabilitation du sujet, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 17 November 1934–9 Desember 1934, kat. no. 14, p. 27.
Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 9 Juni 1936–1 Juli 1936, kat. no. 46, p. 42.
François Boucher. Premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, Mei 1964–Juni 1964, kat. no. 31.
France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academie of Arts, London, 6 Januari 1968–3 Maret 1968, kat. no. 45, p. 48.
Paintings and drawings from Agnew's, London, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 Oktober 1970–24 Oktober 1970, kat. no. 27.
Private treasures. An exhibition of art from Australian private collectors covering a period of five centuries, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 10 Januari 1978–21 Januari 1978, kat. no. 8.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 April 1992–14 Juni 1992, without kat. no.
Great gifts, great patrons. An exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Agustus 1994–19 Oktober 1994, without kat. no.
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 April 2003–20 Juli 2003, ISBN 0734763417, p. 37-39.
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