François Boucher’s Resting Girl
ALL EYES ON
18.02.2025 - 06.07.2025 ,
Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinacoteca)
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ALL EYES ON highlights a work or group of works, a significant artist personality or artistic position, guest appearances by individual loans, important restorations, or new acquisitions in the midst of the gallery. The artistic as well as technical qualities of the paintings, their content and significance, their history of creation and impact, and their creators are illuminated in the context of the collection. This opens up new, current perspectives and diverse insights into the research work at the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen.
François Boucher’s sensual depiction of a young woman lying unclad on a sofa rests entirely within the period of its origin, the Rococo. For his depiction of erotic nudity, the painter dispenses with any customary mythological-historical frame – something that was still a risk even in the Age of Enlightenment. For whom, however, was the painting intended? Why are the layers of paint in such a fragile condition? And do we know anything about the person depicted? Many questions crop up on encountering this painting once again that has since been analysed art-technologically, conserved and restored at the Doerner Institut and will return to the rooms of the Alte Pinakothek in February.
Last edited on 09.01.2025