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Synopsis
The second in a series of scholarly catalogues on the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, this volume focuses on the museum's important holdings of French and British paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries. The catalogue contains comprehensive entries on close to 100 paintings, representing the full range of artistic production (portraiture, landscape, still life, genre and history painting) in France and Britain during this period. Each painting in the catalogue is accompanied by complete and up-to-date documentation, including a detailed description of physical condition, a fully documented provenance and a critical discussion of attribution, date, subject and function, as well as a summary of earlier scholarship. Featured in the catalogue are major works by some of the most significant artists of the period, including Jacques Louis David, Jean Honore Fragonard, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Jean Antoine Watteau amongst the French; Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Benjamin West amongst the British.
