Word: boucher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretary, consulted the roll which showed Boucher had attended 7 of 12 meetings. Cries of "impossible" went up around the room...
Austin also criticized Boucher for not attending meetings of a Jubillee committee that he was supposed to head...
...Some were not even painted during the lifetimes of the artists to whom they are attributed," wrote Wildenstein. Among others, he named two so-called Claude Lorrains, a Boucher, a Watteau (which he described as "flea market quality") and a Courbet. As for the portrait of Ingres by David, "It is not by David and does not represent Ingres"; in fact, in 1796, it was exhibited as a work by Constance Mayer. Says Wildenstein, who consulted his reference library of 300,000 books before speaking out: "The Russians are simply making fun of us with this exhibit...
Hems Heavenward. Fragonard, who flippantly signed his works "Frago," was an exemplar of the rococo age. Born in 1732, he studied under François Boucher. He was befriended by the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and by Madame du Barry, who commissioned him to do the series called the Progress of Love that is now in Manhattan's Frick Collection. One of his best-known works shows a girl on a swing, her hems heavenward, being pushed while her lover looks...
...passing away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer heard...