French Paintings of the Fifteenth Through the Eighteenth Century

by Philip Conisbee

Georges de La Tour's haunting depiction of a repentant Mary Magdalen gazing into a mirror by candlelight; Jean Sim on Chardin's perfectly balanced image of a young boy making a house of cards; Jean Honor Fragonard's monumental suite of landscapes showing aristocrats at play in picturesque gardens--these are among the familiar and beloved masterpieces in the National Gallery of Art, which houses one of the most important collections of French old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691145350
• ISBN13: 9780691145358
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 7.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 10.1" x 11.4"