France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections

Foreword
Hubert Landais, Philippe de Montebello, James N. Wood

Preface
Pierre Rosenberg

Introduction

Des leurres qui persuadent les yeux
Marc Fumaroli

Principal Political and Artistic Events of the Seventeenth Century
Compiled by Claude Lesne

Seventeenth-Century French Paintings
Pierre Rosenberg

I. The French Caravaggesque Painters

II. Georges de La Tour

III. Nicolas Poussin

IV. The Generation of French Painters Who Resided in Italy

V. Painters from Lorraine and Provence

VI. The Le Nain Brothers

VII. The First School of Paris

VIII. Landscape: The Classical Tradition and the Appeal of the North

IX. Portraiture

X. Still Life

XI. Le Brun and Mignard: The End of an Era

Catalogue
Pierre Rosenberg

Inventory of Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in Public Collections in the United States
Pierre Rosenberg

Index of Inventory by City

Paintings Granted to Churches in the United States
Elisabeth Foucart-Walter

Exhibitions

Bibliography

Lenders to the Exhibition