Tour: Seventeenth-Century French Painting

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The pictures on this tour date from about 1626 to 1653. Leading French painters of the period traveled to Rome, where they were influenced by contemporary Italian artists as well as High Renaissance masters and classical antiquity. In this age of the absolute monarchs Louis XIII and Louis XIV, French tastes stressed rationality, order, and idealization rather than realism or natural life. Such discipline led to the establishment, in 1648, of a royal art academy in Paris.

Captions

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1	Sébastien Bourdon, The Finding of Moses, c. 1655/1660
2	Sébastien Bourdon, Countess Ebba Sparre, 1652/1653
3	Philippe de Champaigne, Omer Talon, 1649
4	Claude Lorrain, The Judgment of Paris, 1645/1646
5	Nicolas Poussin, The Assumption of the Virgin, c. 1630/1632
6	Follower of Nicolas Poussin, Nymphs Feeding the Child Jupiter, c. 1650
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7	Nicolas Poussin, The Baptism of Christ, 1641/1642
8	Simon Vouet and Studio, The Muses Urania and Calliope, c. 1634