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Art of the Kings. The beginning of the Bourbon reign-Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV, saw the rise of France to the cultural and political head of Europe. By the end of the 17th century, Versailles (French Architecture) and the Style of Louis XIV were the envy of all monarchs and the most copied. At his accession in 1715, Louis XV was only 5, and power moved back to Paris with the Regent, where the nobility built city homes known as hôtels leading to an intimate, less inhibited style (decorative arts). Art also tends toward escapism, the world of love and family. Below you will find books on artists from this time arranged chronologically. For other periods, Art Directory; for fine prints, French Art.
17th-century BaroqueGeorges de La Tour(1593-1652) From Lorraine, he was named a painter to the king and received important commissions. He is best known for intense religious paintings based in realism.
Le Nains (brothers--Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu) Nicolas Poussin (1593-1665) The greatest French painter of the period and the first to be recognized internationally. Influenced by Titian and Raphael, his style inspired painters for the rest of the century. He believed the highest aim was to capture noble actions. Along with Claude Poussin and Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675), he painted in Rome starting a tradition in landscape painting that continued on throughout Europe which combined romanticized nature with idealized classical architecture often ruins highlighted with color and light.
Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) The great French landscapist. He is the first painter known to have sketched in oil outdoors. Inspired by classical ideals, he often portrays natural beauty with figures in repose adding classical architecture and ruins
Pierre-Paul Puget (sculptor) Antoine Coysevox (sculptor) Simon Vouet Charles Lebrun (supervised all Louis XIV's artistic projects & was Director of the Royal Academy of Painting & Sculpture in Paris, founded in 1648) 18th-century RococoGeneral
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) Influenced by Rubens. He painted fashionable people in park like settings fêtes galantes.
Francois Boucher (1703-1770) Francois Boucher traveled to Italy in 1728 and spent time copying Baroque artists and sketching in the countryside. His landscapes reflect a romanticized countryside and classical architecture. Painted for Madame de Pompadour.
Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) Hubert Robert (1733-1808) Accepted into the Académie de France in 1759. He studied under Giovanni Paolo Panini where he became friends with Jean-Honore Fragonard. His landscapes show the move toward naturalism, with architecture shown in naturalistic light. Painting at the time of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, his work also includes structures such as obelisks and pyramids.
Chardin (1699-1779)
Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842) Portraits of the aristocracy including Queen Marie-Antoinette
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