This season, the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, is focusing on the empire of the senses, described by French philosopher Diderot as the "lasciviousness and impropriety that delighted us in our libertine youth."
François Boucher (1703-1770), Étude de pied (study of a foot), c. 1751-1752, pastel, Paris.
© Musée Carnavalet/Paris Musées
Le Repos de la volupté (Voluptuousness at Rest) , La Résistance inutile ( Useless Resistance ) and Le Cas de conscience ( The Case of Conscience ) set the tone. No exhibition has celebrated Louis XV’s scandalous 18 th century this way since “The Loves of the Gods”, the 1991 show at the Grand Palais in Paris. The intense creativity and immense inventiveness of François Boucher, the painter of love, has been out of the spotlight even longer. The museum’s curator and director, Annick Lemoine, started from the premise that the role of the "painter of graces"…
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