François Boucher

Thirty-Five As usual, when darkness descends, the city comes to life. Clusters of carriages travel Rue Saint Louis. Many are headed to Antoine’s or other fine restaurants, some, like ours, maybe leaving the city. Seeing Boudreaux waiting for me in front of Antoine’s caused other feeling to stir… what am I doing- why am I running away. Do I truly want to do this? Do I? Indecision could be the death of me. As if he could read my mind, and maybe he could, Myles took my hand and gazed into my…

The eighteenth century, Rococo era, was a light-hearted time being pre-revolutionary. This was a period the postmodern world would attempt to emulate. Rococo was a time of, intellectual, social, and political achievements. Not until the eighteenth century did many of the plans and ideas of the last one-hundred years were finally undertaken. Mathematics and the sciences were being accepted and embraced. They were changing the way that society thought and acted. Democracy began to seed in the…

His father was killed in a duel in when David was 9 years old, and the boy was subsequently left by his mother to be raised by two uncles (Jacques-Louis David Biography.). His two uncles sent him to painter François Boucher, who was a leading painter of the time and just happened to be a family friend. David also studied drawing and the literary classics before being accepted into the Académie Royale at the young age of eighteen(Jacques-Louis David). Eight years…