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Article: Boucher at the Wallace Collection.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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THE Director of the Wallace Collection, London, who has a passion for rearranging its contents, has moved the pictures by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) into the Large Gallery to form (with changing displays far off in the new exhibition corridor in the basement) an impetuously conceived exhibition called Boucher: Seductive Visions. The result is partially successful. All the Wallace Collection's pictures by Boucher and his Studio, as well as a few from elsewhere, have been available for clear and close inspection since October. Yet pictures intended to be placed over doors or in small rooms look uneasy when marooned in the spaciousness of the Large Gallery, with the Regency ...