François Boucher

Boucher is perhaps the quintessential Rococo painter. His output ranged from mythologies, pastorals and portraits to designs for tapestries and porcelain, and he became First Painter to the King of France.

Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, was his most important patron. The Enlightenment critic Diderot attacked his work as artificial, a sign of shifting taste.