L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Essais Collection "La Nuit des Temps"

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L'Empire des sens. De Boucher à Greuze. Essais Collection "La Nuit des Temps"Under the brush of the best painters, we have lost count of the bucolic scenes where shepherds and shepherdesses flirt, the boudoirs where languid sighs and lustful glances are exchanged, the alcoves where "the heart and the mind" (Crbillon fils, 1736) wander. However, in this ocean of images devoted to Love, we have hardly emphasized the audacity and originality, sometimes even the extreme license, of certain inventions. Only Jean Honor Fragonard,