Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?)  1747

Although he painted a broad range of subjects and executed designs for porcelain and tapestries, François Boucher’s canvases of pastoral themes represent his most influential contribution to 18th-century French art. These idealized visions of rustic life, indebted to Jean-Antoine Watteau’s images of [i]fête galantes[/i], or open-air courtship parties, typically feature she...