# Cupids in Conspiracy, in François Boucher

François Boucher painted this in the 1740s, aged about 37. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Along with Music and Dance (1948.181.1), this work is surely part of a series of over-door paintings that would have been installed in a house. However, where the panels were originally installed or who commissioned them remains unknown.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1740s
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 77.5 x 131.5 x 6 cm (30 1/2 x 51 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 68.8 x 123.2 cm (27 1/16 x 48 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948.181.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[François Boucher](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/francois-boucher), French, 1703–1770

Boucher trained with François Lemoyne, won the Prix de Rome and spent several years in Italy before rising to become First Painter to Louis XV. Madame de Pompadour was his most important patron.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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