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Study after Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse
Studio of François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
c. 1750
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 32.1 × 45 cm (12 11/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
“I have seen enough of bosoms and buttocks,” wrote the French philosopher and critic Denis Diderot (1713–1784), discussing the paintings of François Boucher.
What Diderot and others considered Boucher’s decadent frivolity was associated with the excesses and corruption of the monarchy (Boucher was named first painter to the king in 1765). In other words, Boucher’s work was seen as embodying, in aesthetic form, everything that led to the French Revolution. His style was rejected by the next generation of artists in France in favor of a simpler, more honest style inspired by ancient Rome and Greece.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
