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French

PIERRE BREBIETTE

Mantes-la-Jolie, near Paris ca. 1598 - 1650 Paris

Armida Advancing to Slay Rinaldo
(from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)
verso: a slight red chalk study of a male head and shoulders

CLAUDE GELEE, called CLAUDE LORRAIN

Chamagne 1600 - 1682 Rome

Three Shephards
verso: An Ox

ETIÈNNE ALLEGRAIN

1644 - Paris - 1736

Idealized Buildings in a Landscape

JEAN-BAPTISTE CORNEILLE

1649 - Paris - 1695

The Supremacy of Sculpture over Painting, Architecture, etc

French Artist in Italy

18th Century

Studies after Antique Sculpture: the Venus de’ Medici and a Silenus

CHARLES JOSEPH NATOIRE

Nimes 1700 - 1777 Castel Gandolfo

Landscape with Shepherds and their Herds amidst Roman Ruins

PIERRE--JACQUES VOLAIRE, called CHEVALIER VOLAIRE

Toulon 1729 - before 1802 Naples

A Neopolitan Couple Dancing

NICHOLAS-BERNARD LÉPICIÉ

1735 - Paris - 1784

Sleeping Peasant Boy

Continental

circa 1800

A Pair of Trompe l'oeil Tableaux depicting Keys, Measuring Instruments, a Candlestick Cutter, and a Chain

AUGUSTE BONHEUR

Bordeaux 1824 - 1884 Belleoux

View of Distant Mountain Peaks