Minneapolis Institute of Art
Saint John the Baptist
François Boucher
- Date
- c. 1755
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
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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