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 ...
François Boucher, Marlene Dumas, Cecily Brown, and Jenny Saville. She studied at the Gorey School of Art in Wexford and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Figgis currently resides in ...