In western countries, painting of nude human body has remained long time artistic affair. It has worked as an assisting building block of the art of painting.
With the flow of the time river, the skill of painting the nudes, especially the female nudes, had become a true test of an artist's painterly skills. Thus most of the famous painters who did concentrated on other subjects, too, had adopted the subject of painting nudes for some of his or her paintings. François Boucher (1703 - 1770), a French painter was among this class of the painters.
