The Great Artists, Issue 56: Boucher by Clive Gregory

An illustrated introduction to Boucher's elegant painted world

Good Condition - with light cover scuffs, small marks, minor creases and rubbed edges and corners.

This issue of The Great Artists explores the life, work and artistic setting of François Boucher. Edited by Clive Gregory, it combines biographical writing with reproductions of paintings that reveal the artist's decorative richness, pastoral imagination and interest in sensual subjects. Sections on his working methods and the world around him connect individual images with the tastes and patronage that helped shape his career. Madame de Pompadour provides an important point of context, while the gallery and connoisseur material invite readers to look more closely at composition, atmosphere and detail. Published as a single illustrated instalment in the series, this issue offers an accessible introduction for readers interested in Boucher and the pleasures of looking carefully at eighteenth-century French painting.