French Baroque: Paintings, Landscapes and Architecture Georges de la Tour: Adoration of the Shepherds, 1644, oil/canvas, 40 x 52" Repentant Magdalene, 1640 (Louvre version) Perrault, Le Vau, and Le Brun: east facade of the Louvre, Paris, 1667-1670 (for comparison with the palace of Versailles) VERSAILLES • Andre Le Notre: landscape design and gardens • Charles Le Brun, Louis Le Vau, and Jules Hardouin-Mansart: architects of various parts of the palace and related buildings • initial designs made 1661-1668; • primary construction 1669-1690 • Hall of Mirrors (Hardouin-Mansart and Le Brun, c. 1680) • Royal Chapel, the Palace of Versailles: Hardouin-Mansart, • ceiling decoration by Antoine Coypel, 1698-1710 Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV, King of France, in Royal Costume 1701, oil on canvas, 9'2 x 6'3" Hardouin-Mansart: Eglise de Dome (Church of the Invalides) 1676-1706, Paris painting the heroic landscape: Nicolas Poussin and the "grand manner" in landscape painting: subject, thought, structure, style Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion, mid-17th C, oil on canvas Burial of Phocion, 1648, oil/canvas, both paintings 47 x 70" Claude Lorrain: Landscape with Cattle and Peasants, 1629, oil on canvas, 42 x 58" Pastoral Landscape, 1638, oil on canvas, 38-1/4 x 51-1/4 in.
1 2 . F R E N CH B A R O Q U E Creator Hyacinthe Rigaud Title Louis XIV, King of France, in Royal Costume Date 1701 Creator Claude Perrault (1613- 1688) Title Colonnade, east wing of the Louvre, façade Date 1664- 1667 Creator Le Vau, Louis, French Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French Title Palace of Versailles [ aerial view of complex] Date 1668- 1685 Creator Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French Le Brun, Charles, French Title Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles Date begun 1678
Creator Jules Hardouin- Mansart (1646- 1708) Title Chateau de Versailles Date 1678- 1684 Creator Hardouin- Mansart, Jules, French, 1646- 1708 Title Royal Chapel, the Palace of Versailles: interior, view towards E. (ceiling decoration by Antoine Coypel), 1698- 1710 Creator Mansart, Jules Hardouin, French, 1646- 1708 Title Les Invalides Date 1676- 1706 Creator La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de, 1593- 1652 Title Magdalene at the Mirror Date c.1635
Creator Georges de La Tour Title Adoration of the Shepherds Date c. 1644 Creator Claude Gellée, also called Claude Lorrain, French, 1600 - 1682 Title Landscape with Cattle and Peasants Date 1629 Creator Poussin, Nicolas, French Title Burial of Phocion Date 1648
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