Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun
François Boucher · c. 1765 · brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper
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About this picture
Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun is a public-domain drawing by François Boucher, dated c. 1765. Brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun” (c. 1765) 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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