Painting #123 - Baroque in France

Pierre Puget (1620–1694, French sculptor)

Caryatids / 女像柱
- Pierre Puget in 1656
- City Hall entrance  (Toulon) 

Milo de Croton
- Pierre Puget
- Louvre  (Paris)

Assumption of the Virgin 
- Pierre Puget
- Musee des Beaux-Arts  (Marseille)  

Nicolas Poussin  (1594–1665, French) 

The Holy Family on the Steps
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas  (69 x 98 cm)  1648
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

R-L: Joseph (father), Jesus (son) and Mary (mother), John (cousin of Jesus, the future John the Baptist) and Elizabeth (John's mother).

Self-portrait
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas  (94 x 78 cm)  1650
- Louvre  (Paris) 

The Burial of Phocion
- Nicolas Poussin
- oil on canvas  (114 x 175 cm)  1648
- Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum  (Wales)  

Whilst the Athenian senate passed the motion to war with Macedonia, their general Phocion insisted on peace. He was condemned and executed, and his unburied corpse banished, and taken to the outskirts where it was burnt.

Claude Lorrain  (1600-1682, French) 

“His [idyllic] landscapes are usually turned into the more prestigious genre of history paintings by the addition of a few small figures, typically representing a scene from the Bible or classical mythology.”

The Judgment of Paris
- Claude Lorrain
- oil on canvas  (51 x 36 cm)  1645/46
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

The Judgment of Paris is a Greek mythology, in which shepherd Paris (Prince of Troy actually) was to judge which of the three beauties was the most beautiful. Aided by Venus, he won the heart of Helen (Queen of Spectacus), who then eloped with him to Troy. The humiliated King of Spartacus waged the Trojan War.

Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
- Claude Lorrain
- oil on canvas  (149 x 197 cm)  1648
- National Gallery  (London) 

Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebecca. Twenty years elapsed before they had children; throughout that time, both Isaac and Rebecca prayed fervently to God for offspring. God eventually answered Isaac's prayers and Rebecca conceived.

Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
- Claude Lorrain
- oil on canvas  (120 x 150 cm)  1682
- Ashmolean Museum  (Oxford U) 

Louis Le Nain 

(1593-1648, French) 

Landscape with Peasants
- Louis Le Nain
- oil on canvas  (47 x 57 cm)  1640
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington)  

Peasant Family in an Interior
- Louis Le Nain
- oil on canvas (113 x 159 cm) 1642
- Louvre (Paris) 

Georges de La Tour  (1593–1652, French)

Georges de La Tour painted mostly religious chiaroscuro (light-dark) scenes lit by candlelight.

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
- Georges de La Tour
- oil on canvas  (128 × 94 cm)  1640
- Louvre  (Paris)

The Repentant Magdalen
- Georges de La Tour
- oil on canvas  (64 × 48 cm)  1635
- National Gallery of Art  (Washington) 

During the 17th century, great devotion was shown to Mary Magdalen (the perfect woman of Christ) in all Catholic countries.

Joseph the Carpenter
- Georges de La Tour
- oil on canvas  (130 × 100 cm)  c.1645
- Louvre  (Paris) 

The painting depicts a young Jesus with his earthly father Saint Joseph.

Louis XIV furniture 

Cabinet on a stand
- André-Charles Boulle in 1675–80 
- J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles) 

Source: Wikipedia