Five Hundred Years Of French Painting – 15th To 18th Centuries (Vol. 1)

Five Hundred Years Of French Painting – 15th To 18th Centuries  (Vol. 1)

This two-volume edition presents some 500 French paintings from the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The holdings of these two world-famous museums constitute one of the richest collections of French painting outside France.

The edition not only illustrates all the wealth and variety of the Soviet collections but also offers an all-encompassing picture of the development of French painting over more than five centuries. The colour plates, arranged in chronological order, include the well-known canvases by David, Ingres, Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard, Chardin, Le Nain, Henri Rousseau, Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Picasso and by many other celebrated artists.

The introductions to each of the volumes outline the history of the collections and describe their distinctive features. The captions contain the basic catalogue data on the works reproduced.

Aurora Art Publishers Leningrad, Geb. Ausgabe, LIUDMILLA BRYLENKO (Editor)