La petite jardinière
François Boucher·1767
Historical Context
La Petite Jardiniere from 1767 at the Galleria Nazionale shows Boucher painting a young girl gardening. His genre figures of women and girls at domestic tasks provided decorative content for interior panels. Boucher worked rapidly in oil on canvas with a warm fluid technique exploiting the Rococo fashion for softly blended color and sensuous surface. Appointed Premier Peintre du Roi in 1765, he embodied French artistic taste for a generation, though his influence waned sharply under the Neocl...
Technical Analysis
The genre figure is rendered with warm palette and decorative charm. Boucher's handling creates a scene of Rococo feminine occupation.
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