Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs of Nysa, François Boucher, 1769
The Mill at Charenton, François Boucher, 1758
Cupids (Allegory of Painting), François Boucher, 1760s
St. John the Baptist, François Boucher, ca. 1755
Diana after the Hunt, François Boucher, 1745
Apollo Revealing His Divinity Before the Shepherdess Isse, François Boucher, 1750
Arion on the Dolphin, François Boucher, 1748
A Trustworthy Secret-Keeper
Catullus 102
Note: Harpocrates - a Greco-Egyptian deity based on Horus, depicted as a child with his finger to his lips as if calling for silence.
If any loyal friend ever entrusted A secret to a friend whose lips are sealed – The sort of man whose loyalty of mind Is known down to the bone – then you will find, Cornelius, I’ve been bound by just the oath Those two friends swore, and I’ve turned into The spitting image of Harpocrates. Si quicquam tacito commissum est fido ab amico, cuius sit penitus nota fides animi, meque esse invenies illorum iure sacratum, Corneli, et factum me esse putum Arpocratem.
The Secret Message, François Boucher, 1767
Interior of a Barn with a Family of Coopers, François Boucher, 1763-66
Resting Maiden (probably a portrait of Marie-Louise O’Murphy, mistress of Louis XV), François Boucher, 1751
The Hardest Burden to Bear
Anthologia Palatina 5.50 (author and date unknown) Poverty and passion – those are the two evils That vex me. As for poverty, I shall Bear it lightly; but the fire of Cypris- That I simply cannot bear at all. Καὶ πενίη καὶ ἔρως δύο μοι κακά· καὶ τὸ μὲν οἴσω κούφως, πῦρ δὲ φέρειν Κύπριδος οὐ δύναμαι.
The Fountain of Love, François Boucher, 1748
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, François Boucher, 1756
The Nymph Callisto Seduced by Jupiter in the Guise of Diana, François Boucher, 1759
Fountain Study II, François Boucher (1703-1770)
The Four Seasons: Summer, François Boucher, 1755