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François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Reclining Girl
1752
Canvas, 59 x 73 cm
From the Zweibrücken Gallery
Inv.-Nr. 1166
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| The girl portrayed has been identified as the 15-year-old Louise O'Murphy, who sat for the painter as model starting 1751. Shortly after King Louis XV saw a miniature of her, he made her his mistress. After the birth of a child, she married Jacques de Beaufranchet in 1755. - Boucher's mixture of childlike naivety and the openly erotic pose embodies the feeling of a rather permissive age. |
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