Art History 1

Subject Entries

Biographical Entries

French Paintings of the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

Artist biographies:

• Boucher, François

• Clouet, François

• Fragonard, Jean Honoré

• Robert, Hubert

• Watteau, Antoine

Collection: French Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries (images)

Multi-page Illustrated Essays (click-through slideshows):

• 8th-Century France—Boucher and Fragonard

• 18th-Century France—Chardin and Portraiture

• 18th-Century France—The Rococo and Watteau

• 18th- and 19th-Century France—Neoclassicism

In-depth studies:

• Claude Joseph Vernet -The Shipwreck

• America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting: A Chronology