François Boucher, Music and Dance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, 1948.181.1 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
François Boucher

Music and Dance

1740s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
69 × 123 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-110844

Along with Cupids in Conspiracy (1948.181.2), this work is surely part of a series of over-door paintings that would have been installed in a house. However, where the panels were originally installed or who commissioned them remains unknown. They exemplify the fusion of fine arts and decorative arts that was common in elite interior design in 18th-century France. Even though the paintings were part of the wall decoration of the room, the patrons chose François Boucher, a well-known painter of portraits and genre scenes, as well as mythological and religious subjects, to execute them. These t…

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, 1948.181.1

Registry history

  • 1740s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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