Date : 1750
Dimensions : 70 cm x 79 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : The Jules Bache Collection (1949)
Salon des Artistes français
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French Painting
Painting (Scène extérieure)
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France
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The painting is a pendant to the "Love Letter" (National Gallery of Art, Washington). When exhibited at the Salon of 1753, the two pictures were described as overdoors from Bellevue, one of Madame de Pompadour's châteaux. By the end of her life, they had been transferred to the vestibule of her Paris residence. Boucher first used the motif in a canvas entitled "The Fountain of Love" (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), which is signed and dated 1748.
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