Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot
1737
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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François Boucher
François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot is a 1737 by François Boucher, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a street vendor holding a tray of steaming pastries and cheese puffs, shouting “All hot!” This wasn’t just a pretty picture—it was a print design for a series called *Cris de Paris*, showing everyday Parisian workers. Boucher usually painted fancy court scenes, so these lively street scenes feel like a peek behind the curtain. Look up the subject of *france* to see more of these bustling Paris scenes.
François Boucher made the drawing as a print design for a series depicting Parisian tradespeople, titled the Cris de Paris (Criers of Paris), which consisted of 12 plates. Subjects in the series included this vendor of hot pastries and cheese puffs as well as a variety of other vendors such as a knife grinder, broom seller, chimney sweep, and vegetable seller. Boucher was known primarily for images epitomizing the elegant court life of France—nudes, decorative compositions, and pastorals—rather than so-called “low life” subjects such as street vendors. Boucher’s series struck a chord with the…
Despite its subject of a street vendor, Boucher’s composition retains some of the courtly artificiality of his age, with an elegantly dressed young gentleman and unkempt baker’s apprentice whose pose is nonetheless balletic, like a dancer at a courtly fête.
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François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style.
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