The Eighteenth Century French Paintings


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The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press




The Catalogue of All That Well-Known Valuable Collection of Capital Paintings, the Property of the Late Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, Which Have Long Been Considered As One of the Great Ornaments of Lansdowne House


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Excerpt from The Catalogue of All That Well-Known Valuable Collection of Capital Paintings, the Property of the Late Most Noble the Marquis of Lansdowne, Which Have Long Been Considered as One of the Great Ornaments of Lansdowne House: Which Have Long Been Considered as One of the Great Ornaments of Lansdowne House Ma grand - in'the highest principle of the art, the delightful figure on the left hand of the Picture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.