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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.
Pages in category "17th-century French painters" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
2.3 17th century. 2.4 18th century. 2.5 19th century. 2.6 20th century. 3 ... This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century in which the ...
Compared with the 17th century Baroque, Rococo implies a lighter and more playful decorative art; the nude female is frequently featured; chinoiserie is also fashionable. Some of the artists that are most often grouped as "Rococo" are listed below. See as well Régence, Louis XV of France, Palace of Versailles.
The Le Nain brothers, Antoine Le Nain (c.1600–1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1603–1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677) produced genre works, portraits and portrait miniatures in 17th-century France. Because of the similarity of their styles of painting and the fact that they signed their paintings only with their surnames they are commonly ...
Jupiter and Io by Correggio, one of the few paintings to leave the Orleans Collection before the French Revolution.(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)The Orleans Collection was a very important collection of over 500 paintings formed by Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, mostly acquired between about 1700 and his death in 1723. [1]