French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By Alain Merot

This richly illustrated panorama of seventeenth-century French painting surveys the works of Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard, and other great and little-known artists. It places this art in relation to literary, political, philosophical, and social developments of the period; considers the foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648; discusses the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments; explores issues of status, patronage, and connoisseurship; and reexamines the notion of a "French School" of painting, first proposed by the theorist Roger de Piles in 1699.

Published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065507
• ISBN13: 9780300065503
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 11.8"