Mes Beaux-Arts

Here you will find a collection of works that would be found in my dream museum if I were a curator with access to works from museums, galleries and private collections, as well as architecture, from around the world.

While there are exceptions, the majority of the works seen here are from the 16th through 19th century with a particular emphasis on 18th century European art. Various artistic mediums are featured including painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving, pastel, and architecture.

Please feel free to leave a comment or ask a question pertaining to any of these works or European art in general. If you would like for me to include more work by a particular artist or one that I've yet to include, please let me know!

If you are interested in my art historical writing, check out my other blog!
http://mesbeaux-arts.blogspot.com/

I do not own any of the following images unless specifically noted.
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. Vue du château de Montmusard. ca. 1770.
Oil on canvas.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Dijon, France.

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. Vue du château de Montmusard. ca. 1770.

Oil on canvas.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Dijon, France.

Ange-Jacques Gabriel. L’ermitage de Madame de Pompadour à Fontainebleau. 1749; wings added in 1755. 

Fontainebleau, France.

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet. La grande galerie du Louvre, le Pont-Neuf et le collège des Quatre-Nations. 1755.
Oil on canvas.
Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet. La grande galerie du Louvre, le Pont-Neuf et le collège des Quatre-Nations. 1755.

Oil on canvas.

Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

Hyacinthe Rigaud. Portrait de Robert de Cotte. 1713.
Oil on canvas.
Musée du Louvre. Paris, France.

Hyacinthe Rigaud. Portrait de Robert de Cotte. 1713.

Oil on canvas.

Musée du Louvre. Paris, France.

Antoine-François Callet. Portrait de Claude-Nicolas Ledoux avec sa fille Adélaïde. ca. 1780. 
Oil on canvas.
Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

Antoine-François Callet. Portrait de Claude-Nicolas Ledoux avec sa fille Adélaïde. ca. 1780. 

Oil on canvas.

Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion. 1648.
Oil on canvas.
Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, UK. 

Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion. 1648.

Oil on canvas.

Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, UK. 

Gilles-Marie Oppenord. Preliminary design for the Salon d’Angle at the Palais Royale, Paris. 1719-1720.
Pen, ink, and pencil on paper. 
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York, NY. USA.

Gilles-Marie Oppenord. Preliminary design for the Salon d’Angle at the Palais Royale, Paris. 1719-1720.

Pen, ink, and pencil on paper. 

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York, NY. USA.

Robert de Cotte. Hôtel de Réauville (Hôtel de Caumont). 1714-1717.

Aix-en-Provence, France.

Antoine Le Pautre. Hôtel de Beauvais. 1654-1657.

Paris, France.

Attributed to Jean Androuet Du Cerceau. Hôtel de Sully. 1625-1630; with additions by François Le Vau in 1651.

Paris, France.