Saint John the Baptist, c. 1755
François Boucherexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
The Putnam Dana McMillan Fundexpand_more 75.8
On View in Gallery 308expand_more
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.
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- Title
- Saint John the Baptist
- Artist Life
- 1703–1770
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 75.8
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