Masterpieces of French Paintings (Fifteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries) (An Abrams Art Book, Art Treasures of the World)

Includes 16 color prints tipped in with captions and an introduction. COVER: The Love Letter by Jean Honore Fragonhard. PRINTS: Pieta by Unknown Painter; Portrait of Francis I by Jean Clouet; The Pilgrims at Emmaus by Louis Le Nain; St. Joseph the Carpenter by Georges de la Tour; The Holy Family on the Steps by Nicholas Poussin; The Reconciliation of Cephalus and Procris by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee); Portrait of Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud; The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean Antoine Watteau; Blowing Bubbles by Jean Simeon Chardin; Venus Consoling Love by Francois Boucher; The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David; Turkish Women at the Bath by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres; Oriental Lion Hunt by Eugene Delacroix; Woman Reading by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot; The Third Class Carriage by Honore Daumier.