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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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Object history |
by 1906 date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : C.J. Wertheimer, Londres
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 - 1970ko martxoaren 5a: Mme. Hector Pétin, Paris
1970ko martxoaren 5a: purchased by Agnew's, Londres, at an anonymous sale at Palais Galliera (auction house), lot no. 16
1970ko urria: purchased by James Fairfax (1933), Bowral, from Agnew's, Londres
1992ko ekainaren 4a: 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, 1932ko ekainaren 9a–1932ko uztailaren 10a, kat. no. 99, p. 44.
Réhabilitation du sujet, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 1934ko azaroaren 17a–1934ko abenduaren 9a, kat. no. 14, p. 27.
Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 1936ko ekainaren 9a–1936ko uztailaren 1ea, kat. no. 46, p. 42.
François Boucher. Premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1964ko maiatza–1964ko ekaina, kat. no. 31.
France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academie of Arts, Londres, 1968ko urtarrilaren 6a–1968ko martxoaren 3a, kat. no. 45, p. 48.
Paintings and drawings from Agnew's, London, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1970ko urriaren 7a–1970ko urriaren 24a, kat. no. 27.
Private treasures. An exhibition of art from Australian private collectors covering a period of five centuries, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 1978ko urtarrilaren 10a–1978ko urtarrilaren 21ea, kat. no. 8.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992ko apirilaren 25a–1992ko ekainaren 14a, without kat. no.
Great gifts, great patrons. An exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994ko abuztuaren 17a–1994ko urriaren 19a, without kat. no.
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003ko apirilaren 17a–2003ko uztailaren 20a, ISBN 0734763417, p. 37-39.
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