# Dreaming Shepherdess [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BOUCHER, François]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 60 x 47 cm ## Commentary Dreaming Shepherdess c. 1763 Oil on canvas, 60 x 47 cm Residenzgalerie, Salzburg Pastoral scenes - so-called pastorale - were typical of French painting under Louis XV. They developed from the "fêtes galantes" of Antoine Watteau, who depicted courtiers disporting themselves in park-like landscapes, and from the "fêtes champêtres" - the rural festivals of Jean-Baptiste Pater, who combined court and country life. Boucher was the first to create high-quality pastorale, laying down the standards for the genre and showing idealised scenes from the love life of amorous shepherds and shepherdesses. ## Related artworks - [A Summer Pastoral]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Music]() - [Allegory of Music]() - [Allegory of Painting]() - [Allegory of Poetry]() - [An Autumn Pastoral \(detail\)]() - [An Autumn Pastoral]() - [Apollo Revealing his Divinity before the Shepherdess Isse]() - [Are They Thinking About the Grape?]() - [Blond Odalisque \(L'Odalisque Blonde\)]() - [Brown Odalisque \(L'Odalisque Brune\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()