The Interrupted Sleep, 1750, Oil on canvas, Overall 32 1/4 x 29 5/8 in. (81.9 x 75.2 cm); painted surface (irregular oval) 31 x 27 3/4 in. (78.7 x 70.5 cm), Paintings, François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris), Boucher was an artist of incomparable virtuosity and industry with a preference for mythological and pastoral subjects. Here he shows a beautifully dressed shepherd and shepherdess. The simplicity of the subject belies the complexity of the composition, which is organized around a series of intersecting diagonals
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Interrupted Sleep, 1750, Oil, canvas, Overall 32 1/4 x 29 5/8, 81.9 75.2 cm, painted surface, irregular oval, 31 27 3/4, 78.7 70.5, Paintings, François Boucher, French, Paris, 1703–1770, Boucher, artist, incomparable virtuosity, industry, preference, mythological, pastoral subjects, beautifully dressed shepherd, shepherdess, simplicity, subject belies, complexity, composition, organized, series, intersecting diagonals
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