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François Boucher

1703 - 1770

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François Boucher (UK: BOO-shay, US: boo-SHAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa buʃe]; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Boucher has received more than 811,005 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. François Boucher is the 79th most popular painter (down from 77th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from France (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Painter.

François Boucher is most famous for his work as a painter, draftsman, and printmaker in the Rococo style.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François Boucher ranks 79 out of 2,023Before him are Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Ilya Repin, Francisco de Zurbarán, Cimabue, Gustave Doré, and Diego Rivera. After him are Alfred Sisley, Jackson Pollock, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Canaletto, Pietro Perugino, and Berthe Morisot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1703, François Boucher ranks 3Before him are Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and Marie Leszczyńska. After him are John Wesley, Louis, Duke of Orléans, Shah Waliullah Dehlawi, Jonathan Edwards, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Johann Theodor of Bavaria, Johann Gottlieb Graun, and Aleksei Chirikov. Among people deceased in 1770, François Boucher ranks 2Before him is Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. After him are Giuseppe Tartini, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Suzuki Harunobu, Thomas Chatterton, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Grenville, Martin van Meytens, and George Whitefield.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Boucher ranks 226 out of 6,770Before him are Gustave Le Bon (1841), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gustave Doré (1832), Léon Foucault (1819), and Bernard Arnault (1949). After him are Pope Urban VI (1318), Philip V of France (1293), Christian Dior (1905), Antoine Meillet (1866), John II of France (1319), and Alfred Sisley (1839).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, François Boucher ranks 21Before him are Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Georges Seurat (1859), Henri Rousseau (1844), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), and Gustave Doré (1832). After him are Alfred Sisley (1839), Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Honoré Daumier (1808), and Francis Picabia (1879).