BAROQUE ART

Georges de la Tour
(1593 - 1652)
 

Georges de la Tour – The Cheat (1635) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Georges de la Tour – Joseph the Carpenter (c. 1645) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Nicolas Poussin
(1594 - 1665)
 

Nicolas Poussin – The Arcadian Shepherds (1629-1630) oil on canvas
The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England

Nicolas Poussin – The Arcadian Shepherds [Et in Arcadia ego] (c. 1638) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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The Le Nain Brothers
(Early - Mid 1600s)
 

Louis Le Nain – Peasant Family in Interior (c. 1640) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Claude Lorrain[Claude Gellée]
(c. 1600 - 1682)
 

Claude Lorrain [Claude Gellée] – Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father (c. 1644) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Claude Lorrain [Claude Gelée] – Seaport at Sunset (1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Charles Le Brun
(1619 - 1690)
 

Charles Le Brun – Chancellor Séguier on Horseback (1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Charles Le Brun – Mary Magdalene Renoucing All Earthly Vanities (c. 1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Philippe de Champaigne
(1602 - 1674)
 

Philippe de Champaigne – Cardinal Richelieu (c. 1637) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

Philippe de Champaigne – The Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnault
and the Sister Catherine de Sainte Suzanne de Champaigne (1662) oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

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Jacques Lemercier
(1585 - 1654)
 

Jacques Lemercier – The chapel at the Sorbonne (University of Paris) – 1635
With students from The King's Academy - including myself and my daughter Elizabeth (on the right) - 2011
Miles Hodges

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François Mansart
(1598 - 1666)
 

François Mansart – Chateau de Maisons, Maisons-Laffitte, garden facade
(Yvelines, France) (1642-1646)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 125

François Mansart – Val de Grace, church
(the dome was designed, however, by Jacques Lemercier)

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Louis Le Vau
(1612 - 1670)
 

Vaux-le-Vicomte, in Maincy (near Melun southeast of Paris) – 1658-1661
(in cooperation with landscape architect André Le Nôtre and painter-decorator Charles Le Brun)

The Château de Versailles - The Court of Honor (the first stage of rebuilding) – 1664-1668
(again, he cooperated with Le Nôtre and Le Brun)

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart
(1646 - 1708)
 

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Louis Le Vau  – Château of Versailles, garden facade (1669-1685)

Jules Hardouin-Mansart – Church of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris (1676)

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Other French Baroque Artists
 

Hyacinthe Rigaud – Louis XIV (1701) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Pierre Puget – Milon of Croton (1670-1683) marble
Commissioned by Louis XIV for the Grounds of Versailles
Paris, Musée du Louvre

English Baroque Artists
 

Christopher Wren – Saint Paul's Cathedral, London (1675-1708)

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Miles H. Hodges - 2014