Country Fair
Pierre Charles Lévesque French
After François Boucher French
Fairs and outdoor pastimes were also favored subjects in the work of Boucher, Saint-Aubin’s teacher. In Boucher’s vision, they were pastoral fantasies, set in idyllic Italianate landscapes or foreign lands. In the work of Saint-Aubin, with its genesis in his habit of strolling and sketching, these subjects were not fictional inventions, but scenes from his own time, his own city.
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