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François Boucher

Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot

c. 1737
black and red chalks on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Despite its subject of a street vendor, Boucher’s composition retains some of the courtly artificiality of his age, with an elegantly dressed young gentleman and unkempt baker’s apprentice whose pose is nonetheless balletic, like a dancer at a courtly fête.

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