Eighteenth-Century France

Eighteenth-Century France

The Monarchy

Louis XVIAntoine-François Callet, 1788

Marie Antoinette and Her ChildrenElisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1787

Versailles

The Queen’s Chamber

The Gallery of Mirrors

The Aristocracy

The Rothschild Room, Paris

The Happy Accident of the SwingJean-Honoré Fragonard, 1768

The Pleasures of the BallAntoine Watteau, 1717

Concert at the Oval Salon of Pierre CrozatNicolas Lancret, 1720

A Reading of MolièreJean François de Troy, c. 1728

Reading Voltaire at the Salon of Mme. Geoffrin, 1755Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, 1812

The Revolutionof 1789

The Taking of the BastilleJean-Pierre Houël, 1789

Voltaire

Voltaire at Twenty-FourCatherine Lusurier, 1778

Friedrich Rossmaessler

Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1778

Voltaire’s Château at Ferney