Artist: François Boucher
Date: 1763
Size: 67 x 56 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This painting, shown with its pendant at the Salon of 1765, is based on Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso (1532). In its handling and composition, it is a consummate example of Boucher’s skill as a colorist in the jewel-like treatment of a historical theme. It depicts Angelica, the pagan daughter of an imaginary king of China, who abandoned the Christian knight Orlando for the knight Medoro, a North African Muslim. Nothing of the multicultural cast found in the original text is evident in Boucher’s image, however, nor in the story’s many representations during the nineteenth century.
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