Pompadour's dream : Boucher, Diderot, and modernity

Author

Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Rethinking Boucher

Author (monograph)

Hyde, Melissa (Editor, Contributor, Collective Author); Ledbury, Mark (Editor, Contributor, Collective Author); Bailey, Colin B. (Contributor, Collective Author); Schieder, Martin (Contributor, Collective Author); Scott, Katie (Contributor, Collective Author); Sheriff, Mary D. (Contributor, Collective Author); Démoris, René (Contributor, Collective Author); Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa (Contributor, Collective Author); Kavanagh, Thomas M. (Contributor, Collective Author)

Source

Rethinking Boucher. 2006, 229-251, 194-195, 9 ill. (2 col.)

Publisher

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Attempts to complicate ideas of how Boucher fits within the cultural context of a burgeoning modernity by examining The Setting of the Sun and The Rising of the Sun (1752 and 1753, respectively; London Wallace Collection), pendant canvases that depict the rise and descent of Apollo as the sun king. Considers what potential impact their patron, Madame de Pompadour, may have had and also considers what impact the discourse of the Englightenment may have had on the mutual relations between painters and patrons in France. Discusses the criticism of Diderot and issues of gender, fantasy, and composition.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- France
• Boucher, François, 1703-1770
• 1700-1800
• France
• Painting
• Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764
• Commissions
• Setting of the Sun
• Rising of the Sun
• Apollo
• Iconography
• Gender (sex)
• Composition
• Fantasy
• Art criticism
• Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
• Relations
• Enlightenment
• Pendants (companion pieces)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- France
• Boucher, François, 1703-1770
• 1700-1800
• France
• Peinture
• Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de, 1721-1764
• Commande d'oeuvre d'art
• Coucher de soleil
• Lever de soleil
• Apollon
• Iconographie
• Sexe (catégorie)
• Composition
• Fantaisie
• Critique d'art
• Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
• Relations
• Siècle des lumières
• Pendants

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00023835

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