Saint John the Baptist
François Boucher
1755
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64 1/2 x 45 1/2 in. (163.83 x 115.57 cm) (canvas) 76 x 56 1/2 x 4 in. (193.04 x 143.51 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
france
About
Boucher painted this picture for his patron, Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV. Partly to please the religious faction at court, she commissioned devotional pictures for the chapels in her various residences. She ordered this one of Saint John, her patron saint, for a chapel in the Capuchin Convent in Paris, where she had an apartment and went for periodic retreats.
