Canaletto – Reception of the French Ambassador at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice (1726-1727) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage

Canaletto – The Pier, Seen from the Basin of San Marco (c. 1730-1735) oil on canvas
Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera

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Rosalba Carriera – Louis XV, as Duphin (1720-1721) pastel on paper
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Alte Meister

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Gianbattista Tiepolo – Venus Receives Mars – fresco
Venice, Palazzo Pisanie

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – America (1753) detail of a ceiling fresco
in the staircase of the Episcopal Residence, Würzburg

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Francesco Guardi – The Doge of Venice in the Sala del Collegio (1770-1775) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Francesco Guardi – View of a Courtyard (1775-1780) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage

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Jean-Antoine Watteau – The Embarkation for Cythera (1717) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Jean-Antoine Watteau – The Signboard of Gersaint (1721) oil on canvas
Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace

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François Boucher – Le Déjeuner (1739) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Francois Boucher – Madame de Pompadour (1758) oil on canvas
London, Victoria and Albert Museum

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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Back from the Market (1739) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745).
Charles-André van Loo (1705–1765), brother of Jean-Baptiste.
Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771), son of Jean-Baptiste.
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795), son of Jean-Baptiste.

Jean-Baptiste van Loo – Triumph of Galatea (1720) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Charles-André van Loo – Halt to the Hunt (1737) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Louis-Michel van Loo – Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Greuze – The Village Bride (1761) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Musical Contest (1755) oil on canvas
London, Wallace Collection

Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Bolt (1778) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

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Jean-Antoine Houdon – Voltaire (1778-1779) marble
Comédie Française

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William Hogarth – The Contract (1744) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

William Hogarth – Mariage à la Mode:  The Tête-à-Tête (or: After the Wedding) (1742-1744) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

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Thomas Gainsborough – Landscape in Suffolk (1750) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

Thomas Gainsborough – The Baille Family (c. 1784) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery

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Johann Michael Rottmayr – Wisdom and Good Conscience Triumphant over Vice (1717) fresco
ceiling fresco in the Weissenstein Palace, Pommersfelden

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – L'Indovina (The Fortune-Teller) (1740) oil on canvas
Venice, Accademia

Johann Georg Zieseniss – Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (1753) oil on canvas
Berlin, Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten

Elias Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach (1764) oil on canvas
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste

Pompeo Batoni – The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) oil on canvas
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

Joseph Wright of Derby – The Old Man and Death (1774) oil on canvas
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum

Benedictine Abbey, Melk, Austria
Work started by Jakob Prandtauer in 1702; finished by Franz Munggenast in 1747

Church of San Francisco, Acatepec, Mexico (c. 1730)

Aleijadinho [Antônio Francisco Lisboa] – Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Ouro Prêto, Brazil (1770-1795)

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