Boucher’s Resting Girl (1752) is a masterpiece of rococo painting and, to modern sensibilities, a troubling scene: the model, Marie-Louise O’Murphy, was only 14 when Boucher painted her nude, sprawled ...
For the past five months, the museum’s 18th-century painting, Lovers in a Park, by Rococo artist François Boucher, has been undergoing a transformation by a team of expert conservators from the ...