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Look at the putti with their heads together at the center, then at the stone dolphin and the giant shell of the fountain at right.
Painted in the 1740s for the same unknown house as Music and Dance, this over-door shows putti gathered by a fountain as if sharing a secret. Boucher also painted portraits, everyday scenes and religious and mythological subjects, yet the owners chose him for wall decoration. Light, playful pastoral fantasies like this one pleased both the French court and wealthy collectors.
oil on canvas · Framed: 77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Rococo
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Cupids in Conspiracy
- Artist
- François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Date
- 1740s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 68.8 x 123.2 cm (27 1/16 x 48 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.