2608 Les Amours Pastorales
2' 6" x 5' 4"            2' 6" x 6' 4"            4' 8" x 9' 4"
2' 10" x 5' 8"          3' 2" x 6'   Bordées
2' 10" x 6' 8"          3' 2" x 7'   Bordées
5' 2" x 10"   Bordée

Fragment de "Les Amours Pastoraltes" non bordée

After F. Boucher (1703-1770).  Boucher had been a superintendant at the Gobelin Manufacture since 1755.  His sketches were extremely popular.
Boucher's paintings are a faithful reflection of a gentle and refined time, entirely dedicated to love libertinage and festivities.  For him, nature is only a context for graceful compositions, in which shepherds and shepherdesses indulge in love, flowers and music.