Shepherdesses and Young Man Playing Bagpipe
François Boucher · n.d. · Charcoal with brush and gray wash, touches of yellow and blue and pink wash, and traces of pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper hinged on gray wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Shepherdesses and Young Man Playing Bagpipe is a public-domain drawing by François Boucher, dated n.d.. Charcoal with brush and gray wash, touches of yellow and blue and pink wash, and traces of pen and black ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper hinged on gray wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Shepherdesses and Young Man Playing Bagpipe” (n.d.) is by Boucher or a print after him. The subject is usually myth or a pastoral, treated as decoration.
About the artist
François Boucher (1703–1770) was a French Rococo painter favored at court. Myth, pastoral scenes, and decorative panels are painted with a light touch in pink and blue.
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