"The Rape of Europa"

François Boucher - Oil
The Rape of Europa (1732-34) is an oil on canvas painting by François Boucher. Boucher's own artistic and actual vigour combined to produce a whole range of mythological pictures which were decorative, superbly competent, and tinged with their own vein of poetry. The painting was painted for the avocat François Derbais who owned at least eight large Bouchers by 1735. This painting (231 x 274 cm) is now in collection of the Wallace Collection, London.