François Boucher, The Fountain of Love, 1748, 295 x 339 cm, Los Angeles, The J.Paul Getty Museum, di
François Boucher, The Fountain of Love, 1748, 295 x 339 cm, Los Angeles, The J.Paul Getty Museum, digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content ProgramThe sensuality and eroticism of the image are typical of Boucher’s art. The idealization of country life as a harmonious state of being, where men and women were free and inclined towards love, had a long tradition in the art (literature and painting of this type were known from Antiquity as Pastoral). Boucher painted many scenes of this type. The sexual connotations of the flute held by the young man, and the garland of flowers carried by the woman on her left arm, are so blatant that they need no further explanation. Rococo art and painting reflect the glamour, but also the corruption of the French aristocratic elite of much of the eighteenth century. -- source link
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