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Forest of Fontainebleau (French: Forêt de Fontainebleau) is an 1834 landscape painting by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. It depicts the Forest of Fontainebleau near Fontainebleau. [1] Corot exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1834 at the Louvre in Paris.
Louis-Léopold Boilly (French pronunciation: [lwi leɔpɔl(d) bwɑji] ⓘ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman.A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life.
17th-century French art is generally referred to as Baroque, but from the mid- to late 17th century, the style of French art shows a classical adherence to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharacteristic of the Baroque as it was practiced in most of the rest of Europe during the same period.
The paintings in the Contarelli Chapel form a group of three large-format canvases painted by Caravaggio between 1599 and 1602, initially commissioned by Cardinal Matteo Contarelli for the Church of St. Louis of the French (San Luigi dei Francesi) in Rome, and eventually honored after his death by his executors.
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The Musée d'Orsay has five paintings of the series on permanent display. [8] In 2018, the National Gallery in London exhibited five paintings of the series, together in a single room, for the duration of a temporary exhibition titled Monet & Architecture, devoted to Claude Monet's use of architecture as a means to structure and enliven his art ...
French art consists of the visual and plastic arts (including French architecture, woodwork, textiles, and ceramics) originating from the geographical area of France.Modern France was the main centre for the European art of the Upper Paleolithic, [citation needed] then left many megalithic monuments, and in the Iron Age many of the most impressive finds of early Celtic art.
Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde is an 1875 oil painting by Edgar Degas. [1] It depicts the cigar-smoking Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic, his daughters Eylau and Jeanine, his dog, and a solitary man on the left at Place de la Concorde in Paris.