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...... Perhaps the most prominent singles aspect of The Toilet of Venus painting is Bouchers use of color. There is nothing truly vibrant in the painting, and yet there is nothing dull, either. Even the greys used for the stone underneath the bed and the pillar visible between the curtains has a richness and texture to it. Even more textured are the blue curtains themselves; the well-wrought folds of fabric pick up the light and reflect it out at the viewer in innumerable shades of the same deep blue. Te reds and golds of the bedclothes are similarly textured, and contrast nicely with the pale shallowness of the goddess skin. This is perhaps the biggest oddity of the painting--with so much richness and well-rendered beauty, the goddess of beauty herself seems somehow diminished and everyday. It is possible that Boucher was reflecting in the diminished state of the goddess in his time, but a more likely--or at least more interesting--interpretation is that Boucher was commenting on the people of his times change in focus from the beauty of divinity, or of femininity, or even of humanity in general, to the external trappings of wealth, fortune, and luxury. This could also

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