The Interrupted Sleep
Francois Boucher
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- The interrupted sleep
Francois Boucher
Date: 1750
Style: Rococo
Genre: pastorale
Media: oil, canvas
Boucher was an artist of incomparable virtuosity and industry with a preference for mythological and pastoral subjects. Here he shows a beautifully dressed shepherd and shepherdess. The simplicity of the subject belies the complexity of the composition, which is organized around a series of intersecting diagonals. This canvas, much admired at the Salon of 1753, was one of a pair of overdoors from Bellevue a château belonging to Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV.
In this charming scene, a young herder of goats is using a feather to tickle the neck of a sleeping shepherdess who has fallen asleep after picking some flowers. This totally unrealistic picture -- notice the handsome dress of the young girl, and the huge flowers which would never have grown in the wild -- was part of an extremely popular genre: the shepherdess and her swain.
In his version, Boucher has faithfully followed the pattern, indeed he did much to popularize it throughout France. To the sophisticated ladies and gentlemen of the court, this country-side idyl was a symbol of innocence and purity. Here, in touch with nature, people were assumed to be more "natural" and closer to Rouseau's ideal of the perfect human.
In this painting a young shepherdess has dozed off and is about to be awakened by a young swain, who sneaks up from behind and tickles her face with a bit of straw. The setting is rich and fertile, enlivened by sheep and a dog; vies from the distance balance the composition.
This painting is the pendant to the Love Letter (National Gallery of Art, Washington), another pastoral subject matching in size, composition and amorous theme.
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