FRANCOIS BOUCHER – Celebrated, Rococo Style French Painter (HD)

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He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
François Boucher was born on September 29th, 1703, in Paris, Kingdom of France.
He was a well-respected painter, draughtsman, and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.
Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes.
He was a native of Paris and the son of a lesser-known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training.
At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne.
Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver, Jean-François Cars.
In 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting but did not take up the opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to financial problems at the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture.