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| Antoine Watteau Two Cousins c. 1716 |
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| Antoine Watteau Diana at her Bath 1715-16 |
Yesterday's entertaining glance at the French Baroque incidentally opened a side path into the French 18th century (with its confident gestures and melancholy merriment and silvery gloss). This allowed me to stray briefly outside the temporal boundaries within which I generally am content to dwell.
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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Marie Madeleine Guimard 1769 |
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| Nicolas Bertin Phaéton on the Chariot of Apollo c. 1720 |
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| Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld Vue de l'île de Sora 1793 |
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| Jean-Germain Drouais Marius at Minturnae 1786 |
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| Noel Hallé Race Between Hippomenes and Atalanta c. 1762-65 |
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| Jean-François-Pierre Peyron Death of Alcestis 1785 |
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| Pierre Subleyras Portrait of a Man Reading c. 1745 |
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| Pierre Subleyras Charon Ferrying the Shades c. 1735-40 |
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| Anne Vallayer-Coster Still Life with Marine Plants, Shells & Coral 1769 |
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| Claude-Joseph Vernet Port of Marseilles 1754 |
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| Pierre-Henri Valenciennes Roman Morning c. 1782-84 |
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| Pierre-Henri Valenciennes Roman Clouds c. 1780 |