The Interrupted Sleep, 1750, Oil on canvas, Overall 32 1/4 x 29 5/8 in. (81. 9 x 75. 2 cm) ; painted surface (irregular oval) 31 x 27 3/4 in. (78. 7 x 70. 5 cm), Paintings, Francois Boucher (French, Paris 1703?1770 Paris), Boucher was an artist of incomparable virtuosity and industry with a preference for mythological and pastoral subjects. Here he shows a beautifully dressed shepherd and shepherdess. The simplicity of the subject belies the complexity of the composition, which is organized around a series of intersecting diagonals