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Boucher

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Bou·cher  (b-sh), François 1703-1770.
French artist whose paintings and tapestries are representative of the rococo style.

Boucher (French) [buʃe]
n
(Biographies / Boucher, François (1703-1770) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) François (frɑ̃swa). 1703-70, French rococo artist, noted for his delicate ornamental paintings of pastoral scenes and mythological subjects


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Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher that is stretched on the staircase wall.
 
 
 
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