François Boucher

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pencil drawing of seated man with leg crossed atop his knee
The Eveillard Gift
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This exhibition presents a remarkable promised gift of European works on paper. Along with figurative sketches, independent studies, and portraits are two vivid landscape scenes. Artists include Boucher, Caillebotte, Degas, Fragonard, Goya, Sargent, and Vigée Le Brun.

Tercentenary of Boucher's Birth to Be Marked by an Unprecedented Survey of Drawings at The Frick Collection: The Drawings of François Boucher
New Friday Evening Hours at The Frick Collection are the Focus of a Special December Promotion this Holiday Season
Major Fall Exhibition at The Frick Collection; Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
The Draftsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
video still of Xavier Salomon in room under construction
Restoring Mrs. Frick's Boudoir

Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, takes us behind the scenes into the revitalization of the Boucher Room—one of the most exciting aspects of The Frick Collection’s renovation and enhancement project. Named for its paintings by François Boucher and his workshop, the Boucher Room (formerly installed on the ground floor) is returning to its original location upstairs, where it was once Adelaide Frick’s private sitting room.

video still of Xavier Salomon and painting of woman in sled
Cocktails with a Curator: Boucher's "Four Seasons"

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, take a closer look at the extraordinary flickers of paint in the colorful canvases of François Boucher’s Four Seasons series with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon. Acquired by Henry Clay Frick late in life, the four paintings were commissioned by Boucher’s great patron Madame de Pompadour—the longtime mistress of King Louis XV—to be placed over doors, hence their unusual shape. The complementary cocktail this week is the Time Regained.

video still of Xavier Salomon and oil painting of lady on bed
Cocktails with a Curator: Boucher's 'A Lady on Her Day Bed'

In this episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, examines the life and work of French painter François Boucher, with a focus on “A Lady on Her Daybed.” Discover why Boucher was said to epitomize the taste of the eighteenth century. This week’s complementary cocktail has a kick: the potent French 75, named after the powerful French 75mm field gun.

Cocktail Recipe

French "75"
2/3 gin
1/3 lemon juice
simple syrup
fill up with champagne

Link to video of Kristel Smentek lecture
Kristel Smentek: "Chinoiseries for Beijing: An Eighteenth-Century French Gift to the Emperor of China"

October 21, 2015

In 1766 a set of chinoiserie tapestries designed by François Boucher was presented to the Qianlong Emperor on behalf of the French administration. This lecture examines the circumstances of the gift and the remarkable Sino-French exchange of art objects it initiated.