Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and His Critics/Rethinking Boucher

Between 2003 and 2005, museums in France and New York presented four separate exhibitions of Boucher's drawings, and London's Wallace Collection single-handedly mounted four exhibitions of its own Boucher paintings.2 Moreover, all of these shows followed close on the heels of a major traveling exhibition that addressed Pompadour's influence on the arts, which necessarily featured Boucher quite prominently.3 Three symposia further assessed and advanced the state of Boucher scholarship, with the present volume arising from a two-day colloquium held at the Getty Research Institute in 2003. [...] the novel and thought-provoking perspectives that the authors bring to Boucher's paintings highlight the potential interest of a similarly iconoclastic approach to the artist's impact on the Sevres porcelain manufactory, the Gobelins tapestry works, or the silver, textiles, and wall coverings of his day.