Francois Broucher

Francois Broucher was a popular French artist in the 18th century known for Rococo Style paintings. He painted a lot of classical, decorative, and pastoral scenes. Most of his artwork represented nature and landscape. As a seventeen year old boy Broucher became known for one of his paintings and three months later worked for an engraver. He married at the age of thirty to a woman named Marie-Jeanne Buzeau and they had three kids together . He used his wife and children in some of his paintings for example, "The Breakfast", which pictures a familia scene. Most of his artwork contained his nude wife taking part in sexual scenes. Some complainers claimed he was prostituting his own wife in his paintings which had at one point threatened his career …show more content…
He also became the first painter of the king. He won numerous awards for his great works including the Grand Prix de Rome. Boucher is famous for his saying that nature is "trop verte et mal éclatée", meaning to green and badly lit.
He was also a profound member at drawing. He mainly drew studio practice Sean's which were in great demand of collectors. An example would be the "Young Country Girl Dancing". That it was set him off to working with pastel art pieces and than his career path for sketching .
Broucher has four popular painting that I recognized right away in the Kimbell Art Museum. They are called "The complete Works", "Venus at Vulcan's Forge", Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa", "Juno Asking Aeolus to Release the Winds", and "Boreas Abducting Oreithyia". They are all some of the largest oil canvas paintings in the entire museum. An entire wall is dedicated to those four paintings which steals a persons full attention due to its color and great size.
Francois Broucher was a man with many artistic talents, died on May 30 1770 and will forever be known as one of the greatest artist of the 17th