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Fragonard, some 30 years younger than Boucher, drifted with the increasing vulgarity of his time, trying hard to please the flamboyant Madame du Barry. Often he peddled his frumptious nudes to Paris' burgeoning demimonde. Fragonard also was a master draftsman with an inspired poetic vision, as proved by his sanguines (red crayon sketches) of Tivoli's Renaissance palace, Villa d'Este, surrounded by antique ruins...
...France's great Sun King, Louis XIV, the Versailles court lived a lavish life. Its taste and style were enviously mimicked in the other courts of Europe and in the newly decorated salons of Paris' prosperous bourgeoisie. The age's artists par excellence were Francois Boucher and his brilliant pupil, Jean Honore Fragonard...
...Boucher's patroness was Louis XV's mistress Madame de Pompadour, and the artist worked furiously to keep up with her demands and those of the court-decorations for chateaux, scenery for opera and theater, lush paintings of nudes, and tapestry designs for the revived Gobelin and 54 Beauvais works. But his talent for rendering sensuous and elegant women in symbolic attitudes is best seen in his drawings, where quick pencil strokes catch the freshness and spontaneity of his inspiration...
Behind Terry came the varsity's Bill Morris and Don French. Morris, with a lunge at the tape, edged French in the time of 20:31. Bob Boucher of Providence was fourth, and then came Al Wills, Don McLean, Paul Beck, Dave Wharton, and Phil Williams, all of the varsity. Wills had a 20:55; McLean, 21:04; Beck, 21:11; Wharton, 21:16; and Williams...
...Francisco's Boucher was painted for Mme. de Pompadour, passed to an English collection in the 19th century and moved westward again to America. Sweet and cool as a sundae, the canvas shows the best of Boucher's easy sensualism. Because his temperament accorded perfectly with his time and place, and because of his decorative genius, Boucher was showered with honors, made Peintre du Roi and Director of the Paris Academy. His fame perished in the French Revolution-to be eventually restored by posterity. Curiously, his Diana is not Diana at all, but Jupiter, who seduced Callisto...