The Master of Miniature Pleasures In the shimmering, decadent atmosphere of mid-18th century Paris, few artists captured the ephemeral essence of Rococo intimacy quite like Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. Born in 1723 to an engraver, Baudouin emerged not merely as a painter, but as a chronicler of the era's most private and whispered moments. His life was deeply entwined with the very fabric of French high society and its artistic elite; through his marriage to Marie-Elisabeth, the daughter of the legendary François Boucher, he became more than just a pupil of the Rococo master—he became an extensi…