The painting depicts Diane and three of her nymphs, who after hunting birds and rabbits, take off their shoes and undress before cooling off in a pond.
François Boucher (French: 29 September 1703 - 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draftsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories, and pastoral scenes. He was perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century.
A native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher, who gave him his first artistic training. At the age of seventeen, a painting by Boucher was admired by the painter François Lemoyne. Lemoyne later appointed Boucher as his apprentice, but after only three months, he went to work for the engraver Jean-François Cars.
In 1720, he won the elite Grand Prix de Rome for painting, but did not take up the consequential opportunity to study in Italy until five years later, due to financial problems at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. On his return from studying in Italy he was admitted to the refounded Academy of painting and sculpture on November 24, 1731. His reception piece was his Rinaldo and Armida of 1734.
Boucher married Marie-Jeanne Buzeau in 1733. The couple had three children together. Boucher became a faculty member in 1734 and his career accelerated from this point as he was promoted Professor then Rector of the Academy, becoming inspector at the Royal Gobelins Manufactory and finally Premier Painter du Roi (First Painter of the King) in 1765.
Boucher died on 30 May 1770 in his native Paris. His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: "Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it. "
Boucher is famous for saying that nature is "too green and badly lit" (too green and badly lit).
Boucher was associated with the gemstone engraver Jacques Guay, whom he taught to draw. He also mentored the Moravian-Austrian painter Martin Ferdinand Quadal as well as the neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David in 1767. Later, Boucher made a series of drawings of works by Guay which Madame de Pompadour then engraved and distributed as a handsomely bound volume to favored brokers.

Hazan editions
Fernand Hazan Éditeur1 or Éditions Hazan are a French publishing house specializing in art books, founded in 1946 by Fernand Hazan, and now a department of Hachette Livre.
Fernand Hazan, is the brother of Emile Hazan, French bookseller installed in Cairo. The Hazan family decided to emigrate to Paris in 1927 where Émile founded a publishing house in his name; Fernand, for his part, founded the Éditions de Cluny in January 1930 with Jacques de Michel-Duroc de Brion (1904-1988) as his partner.
In June 1941, under pressure from the German occupier who had just appointed Raymond Durand-Auzias administrator of its editions, Fernand Hazan sold his shares in the Editions de Cluny to his partner. The sale was declared void by the Seine Commercial Court in March 1945, however that in July of the same year, Hazan finally sold the Editions de Cluny to Jacques de Michel-Duroc de Brion.
In September 19452, he created Fernand Hazan publisher, SA3. Previously, in October 1944, he was appointed temporary administrator of Editions Baudinière by the purification committee.
At the end of the 1950s, he created the “ABC” collection, pocket-sized artists' monographs signed by specialists and which met with some success, and this for almost 25 years under the direction of Blanche, his wife.
In 1992, shortly after the death of Fernand Hazan (in August), his son Éric Hazan had to sell the Hazan editions to the Hachette group for economic reasons.
On July 31, 1997 the brand was registered in the name of the company Hachette Livre4.
On April 28, 2017, Fernand Hazan Éditeur was merged with Hachette Livre.