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FRENCH, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 277
(1727-1775) also expresses all the beauty, charm, and grace of the
day in his presentations of the fashionable world.
Francois Boucher (1703-1770), the friend and successor of Carle
Van Loo as first painter to the King, is so idyllic and fanciful that he
has been characterized as the “Anacreon of Painting.”
Alexandre Frangois Desportes (1661-1743), painter oLhunting-scenes
and animals, and Jean Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), painter of hunting-
scenes, animals, flowers, fruit, and still-life, blazed the trail for Jean
Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), one of the greatest colorists
in the entire history of painting. Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805),
full of grace, charm, and freshness, painter par excellence of pretty
girls, and Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), pupil of Chardin
and Boucher, famous for his delicate color and lightness of touch,
lived into the new regime and their work became unappreciated.
Hubert Robert (1733-1808), painter of delicate and highly decorative
garden-scenes and classical ruins, and Madame Labille-Guiard (1749-
1803) also lived into the Directoire and Napoleonic period when they
were forced to leave their quarters in the Louvre formerly accorded
to them by Royal permission. Madame Labille-Guiard was in her
day ranked with Madame Vigee LeBrun (1755-1842), wife of the
grand-nephew of the great painter, Charles LeBrun, who won dis-
tinction for her portraits, her brilliant salon, and her charming per-
sonality.
JUPITER AND CALISTO.
Nicolas Poussin Collection of
{1594-1665). Mr. Carroll Tyson.
This famous picture was first owned by the great painter Charles
LeBrun. It subsequently belonged to the Collections of Baron
Holback, 1789; Baron Clary, 1868; and Baron de Tournelle in Paris.
Painted about 1635, this large canvas (53P2 x 70 X inches), is in a
fine state of preservation, the colors, in consequence, appearing richer
than is usual in Poussin’s works. The greens, browns, and pinks
are warm; the flesh tints are glowing; and the draperies and the sky
are a deep lapis-lazuli blue.
(1727-1775) also expresses all the beauty, charm, and grace of the
day in his presentations of the fashionable world.
Francois Boucher (1703-1770), the friend and successor of Carle
Van Loo as first painter to the King, is so idyllic and fanciful that he
has been characterized as the “Anacreon of Painting.”
Alexandre Frangois Desportes (1661-1743), painter oLhunting-scenes
and animals, and Jean Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), painter of hunting-
scenes, animals, flowers, fruit, and still-life, blazed the trail for Jean
Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), one of the greatest colorists
in the entire history of painting. Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805),
full of grace, charm, and freshness, painter par excellence of pretty
girls, and Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), pupil of Chardin
and Boucher, famous for his delicate color and lightness of touch,
lived into the new regime and their work became unappreciated.
Hubert Robert (1733-1808), painter of delicate and highly decorative
garden-scenes and classical ruins, and Madame Labille-Guiard (1749-
1803) also lived into the Directoire and Napoleonic period when they
were forced to leave their quarters in the Louvre formerly accorded
to them by Royal permission. Madame Labille-Guiard was in her
day ranked with Madame Vigee LeBrun (1755-1842), wife of the
grand-nephew of the great painter, Charles LeBrun, who won dis-
tinction for her portraits, her brilliant salon, and her charming per-
sonality.
JUPITER AND CALISTO.
Nicolas Poussin Collection of
{1594-1665). Mr. Carroll Tyson.
This famous picture was first owned by the great painter Charles
LeBrun. It subsequently belonged to the Collections of Baron
Holback, 1789; Baron Clary, 1868; and Baron de Tournelle in Paris.
Painted about 1635, this large canvas (53P2 x 70 X inches), is in a
fine state of preservation, the colors, in consequence, appearing richer
than is usual in Poussin’s works. The greens, browns, and pinks
are warm; the flesh tints are glowing; and the draperies and the sky
are a deep lapis-lazuli blue.