Boucher

Francois Boucher (29 September 1703 - 30 May 1770) was a French painter of the Roccoco school.  "Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes."   He frequently painted the portrait of his patroness Madame de Pompadour.  His art typically forgoes traditional rural innocence to portray scenes with a definitive style of eroticism, and his mythological scenes are passionate and amorous rather than traditionally epic.
Boucher is famous for saying that the natural world was "trop verte et mal eclaire" (too green and badly lit).
An-Autumn-Pastoral-1749-large.jpg|An Autumn Pastoral
A-Summer-Pastoral-large.jpg|A Summer Pastoral
Leda-And-The-Swan-1741.jpg|Leda and the Swan
Young-Woman-With-A-Bouquet-Of-Roses-large.jpg|Young Woman with a Bouquet of Roses
Vulcan-Presenting-Venus-with-Arms-for-Aeneas-1757.jpg|Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas 1757
Watermill-large.jpg|Watermill
==Works Referencing Boucher==
Asides on the Oboe
line 5 (i.2):An empty land; the gods that Boucher killed;
Owl's Clover; Part III. The Greenest Continent
line 298 (ii.14):Of Boucher pink, the sheens of Venetian gray.
==References==
Wallace Stevens Concordance
Asides on the Oboe
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.francoisboucher.org/