The Fountain of Love  1748

by François Boucher

A youth with a flute gazes languidly at his companionwhile another youth offers a shell full of fresh water to a dainty maiden in a diaphanous gown of purple-gold and red satin. A rosy-cheeked, barefoot woman dressed in red silk looks longingly at the man with the flute. Suitors woo and babies frolic in an idyllic setting of lush, green, leafy trees under a pale blue sky w...
Size: 
294.6 x 337.8 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Getty