Venus at Vulcan

rococo style paintings that commonly portrayed rustic and

mythological scenes. Francois Boucher was born in France. He

was the son of a lace designer. His greatest influence when

growing up was Antoine Watteau. He admired his delicate style

of painting. When Bocher grew up he decided to leave France

and off to Rome. In Rome he studied with the painter Francois

Le Moyne. In 1723 won the “Prix De Rome”. He

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Vulcan strains

forward, presenting the sword toward Venus with a sense of

urgency and yearning clearly visible on his face. He

was also considered the most fashionable painter of his time. studied in Rome

from 1727 to 1731. When Bocher returned to France he

created over hundreds of paintings. ”

Boucher was very ill while in the process of painting this work,

and he had only a year to live. His illness did not effect the

outcome of his painting. This painting was inspired by Virgil’s

narrative in the eighth book of The Aeneid, “in which Venus

induces Vulcan to forge the arms for her mortal son Aeneas,

champion of the Torjans against the the Greeks. Seized by

passion, he is totally under the sway of Venus , a fact Boucher

stresses by the doves and putto reclining on his lap and by the

putto on Venus’s side, who aims his arrow directly at Vulcan’s

heart. This describes the influence and inspiration of his

painting.

One of his greatest paintings is the “Venus at Vulcan’s Forge. Boucher’s work caught

the eye of the royals, he was made first painter to the king. Towards the end of his life his style of painting was

widely imitated. Vulcan has succumbed to love, a fire more subtle and

more powerful that that with which he forges steel”- Kimball Art

Museum.

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