Saint John the Baptist

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Saint John the Baptist

François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-e1469f0a3fff

Date
c. 1755
Medium
Oil on canvas
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
2245

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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. France, Europe

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The Putnam Dana McMillan Fund

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