Boucher’s Resting Girl (1752) is a masterpiece of rococo painting and, to modern sensibilities, a troubling scene: the model, Marie-Louise O’Murphy, was only 14 when Boucher painted her nude, sprawled ...
Though the gift includes works covering a wide breadth of French art history, with the works by Rococo painter François Boucher and Romantic painter Théodore Géricault included, it is richest ...