Marie-Louise O'Murphy

Marie-Louise O'Murphy

This painting is also called "lying on the sofa in lish", is the painter boucher in rococo form its peak in the second half of the 18th century.Naked young women has a pink colour and lustre of the body, in a provocative posture leaning on velvet sofa, this work is seen as a model of erotic art, and draw the heroine herself as a cloth pavilions model after two years (1751-1752), due to the paintings to the French king Louis xv became Louis xv's mistress in 1753.

Boucher (Buxie, f. Boucher, 1703-1770) demonstrates representatives of painting, in the 18th century France is deep rulers to appreciate the painter at that time, 32, was elected as member of the Royal Academy of fine arts, later was awarded the title of emperor of the French Louis xv chief painter.Promoted to the Royal Academy of fine arts dean later in life.Boucher's status and his upper class and determine his art mainly cater to the needs of the society at that time.The bath after the Diana is a representative of this kind of work.It under the guise of Roman mythology, the goddess of hunting danae, in the name of the depicts the upper-class favorite naked women.