Landscape

Landscape from 1740 at the Musee de Narbonne shows Boucher painting pure landscape. Though known primarily for figure painting, his landscapes demonstrate sensitivity to pastoral scenery that fed his decorative compositions. Boucher's pastoral subjects construct an entirely artificial Arcadia populated by idealized peasants who never soil their hands or their silk. These images of prettified rural life produced for aristocratic clients represent the ultimate refinement of the French pastoral ...

The landscape is rendered with Boucher's characteristic warm palette and decorative sensibility. The handling creates a pastoral scene of Rococo charm.