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| Odilon Redon Baronne de Domecy ca. 1900 pastel and graphite Getty |
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| Charles Antoine Coypel Double portrait 1743 pastel Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Very broadly speaking, traditional Italian picture-making took less interest than French picture-making in expressing the flavor of individual personality. French portraiture was comparatively idiosyncratic, concerned to establish the distinctiveness of the sitter and ready to sacrifice the power of generalization, without which the Italians could not work at all.
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| Louis Carmontelle Woman seated by the fire 18th century drawing Morgan Library |
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| Louis Carmontelle Mme de Vermenoux 1770s drawing British Museum |
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| Louis Carmontelle Mme la Marquise de la Croix ca. 1770 drawing British Museum |
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| Louis Léopold Boilly Artist's wife in the studio ca. 1795-99 Clark Art Institute |
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| Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Young woman reading 1869-70 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Reverie ca. 1860-65 Metropolitan Museum of Art gift of Louisine Havemeyer |
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| Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Portrait of a child ca. 1835 Metropolitan Museum of Art gift of Louisine Havemeyer |
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| Nicolas de Largillière Portrait of a woman 1696 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier Portrait of a woman 1753 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier Mme Marsollier & her daughter 1749 Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Hyacinthe Rigaud Louis XIV ca. 1701 Prado |
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| Pierre Gobert Louis XV (at age four, one year before his accession to the throne) 1714 Prado |
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| Antoine François Callet Louis XVI 1778-79 Prado |