L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Avec un humour redoutable

Avec un humour redoutable

the beauty that emanate from it

sometimes offered and passed from hand to hand

celebrates the resistance of the Egyptians against the Napoleonic armies

An ancient people from whom the Greeks borrowed the alphabet

L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Techniques archéologiques Avec un humour redoutableUnder the brush of the best painters, we have lost count of the bucolic scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses flirt, the boudoirs where languid sighs and lustful glances are exchanged, the alcoves where "the heart and the mind" (Crbillon fils, 1736) wander. However, in this ocean of images devoted to Love, we have hardly emphasized the audacity and originality, sometimes even the extreme license, of certain inventions. Only Jean Honor Fragonard,