Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.
The Enlightenment virtues of truth to nature, simplicity, and grace all found sublime expression through his ability to translate into marble both a subject’s personality and the vibrant essence of living flesh, their inner as well as outer life.
Marina George, MuSe Intern for Access and School Programs, invites visitors with learning and developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum, together with family and friends, to attend Discoveries.
