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          NGA Online Editions                        French Paintings 15th–18th Centuries                

# French Paintings of the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries

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                      Joseph Baillio, Philip Conisbee, John Oliver Hand, Yuriko Jackall, Benedict Leca, Richard Rand, Aaron Wile,  *French Paintings of the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries*, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/catalogue/18th-century-french-paintings (accessed April 19, 2024).                   

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                    -  	                   Boucher, François	                
                    -  	                   Clouet, François	                
                    -  	                   Fragonard, Jean Honoré	                
                    -  	                   Robert, Hubert	                
                    -  	                   Watteau, Antoine	                

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                    -                              Allegory of Music                     
                    -                              Allegory of Painting                     
                    -                              The Bath of Venus                     
                    -                              Blindman's Buff                     
                    -                              Ceres (Summer)                     
                    -                              Diana and Endymion                     
                    -                              A Game of Horse and Rider                     
                    -                              A Game of Hot Cockles                     
                    -                              The Happy Family                     
                    -                              The Italian Comedians                     
                    -                              A Lady in Her Bath                     
                    -                              Love as Folly (Jean Honoré Fragonard)                     
                    -                              Love as Folly (Jean Honoré Fragonard)                     
                    -                              The Love Letter                     
                    -                              Love the Sentinel (Jean Honoré Fragonard)                     
                    -                              Love the Sentinel (Jean Honoré Fragonard)                     
                    -                              Madame Bergeret                     
                    -                              Mountain Landscape at Sunset                     
                    -                              The Ponte Salario                     
                    -                              The Swing                     
                    -                              The Visit to the Nursery                     
                    -                              Young Girl Reading                     

                    -                         Aaron Wile                    
                    -                         Benedict Leca                    
                    -                         Elizabeth Walmsley                    
                    -                         Joanna Dunn                    
                    -                         John Oliver Hand                    
                    -                         Joseph Baillio                    
                    -                         Philip Conisbee                    
                    -                         Richard Rand                    
                    -                         Yuriko Jackall                    

Highlighted here are selected French paintings of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries from the collection of the National Gallery of Art. The online presentation of these texts, which were originally published in the Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue series, reflects the institution’s commitment to the broad dissemination of its authoritative, peer-reviewed scholarship.

 

*These texts were previously published in Philip Conisbee et al.,*French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, *The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue (Washington, DC, 2009).*

*Collection data may have been updated since the publication of the print volume. Additional light adaptations have been made for the presentation of these texts online.*

Collection Home PageFrench Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries

*America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting*: A Chronology

18th-Century France — Boucher and Fragonard

18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture

18th-Century France — The Rococo and Watteau

18th- and 19th-Century France — Neoclassicism

                    - America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting
                    - May 21 – August 20, 2017
                    - Hubert Robert, 1733–1808
                    - June 26 – October 2, 2016

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