Reclining Girl

Artwork: Reclining Girl

Artist: François Boucher

Created: 1751

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 59.5 x 73.5 cm

Location: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany

“The reclining girl, perhaps one of Louis XV’s mistresses, (little as that particular-lorises her), is a triumph of simple and memorable design, and shows Boucher’s delight in the sheer painting of flesh. Such pictures were certainly appreciated outside France, but significantly enough, the female nude was by no means a popular subject for painters in either Italy or England.” (ML)

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