BOUCHER, François
(b. 1703, Paris, d. 1770, Paris)

Madame Boucher (?)

1743
Oil on canvas, 57 x 68 cm
Frick Collection, New York

This painting probably represents the wife of the artist. It is well-known that in some of his paintings Boucher gracefully transmuted his childishly pretty wife into goddess or nymph, but he also painted an almost satirically pointed portrait of a woman who is probably she, as she and her untidy ambient really were.