Venus Consoling Love [SEP] creator
Venus Consoling Love
Venus Consoling Love is a painting by François Boucher, from 1751.
The painting depicts a mythological scene, where Venus, the goddess of Love, depicted as a charming and supple young woman, is impersonating the French Rococo's beauty ideals. She is about to disarm Cupid, by taking away his arrows, that he uses when shooting at people to make them fall in love. 
"In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief
are common themes found in Boucher's work. Venus Consoling Love, and The Triumph of Venus are some of Boucher's other works that convey these themes. Both pieces show how Boucher's work progressed and helped pave the way to creating The Blonde Odalisque. His painting style is also something he's famous for, the soft and delicate, yet bold brush strokes are representative of common Rococo themes such as delicacy and beauty. "The Blonde Odalisque" has two somewhat different copies, the first one was made in 1751 and