See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

FRANCOIS See also:

• FRANCOIS BOUCHER (1703-1770)
• BOUCHER, JONATHAN (1738-1804)

BOUCHER (1703-1770)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and at first was employed by See also:

• JEAN

jean See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois Cars (167o-1739), the engraver, See also:

• FATHER

father of the engraver See also:

• LAURENT, FRANCOIS (1810–1887)

Laurent Cars (1699-1771), to Make designs and illustrations for books . In 1727, however, he went to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, and at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome became well known as a painter . He returned to Paris in 1731 and soon became a favourite in society . His picture " Rinaldo and Armida " (1734) is now in the Louvre . He was made inspector of the Gobelins factory in 1755 and See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court painter in 1765, and was employed by Madame de See also:

• POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON LE NORMANT

Pompadour both to paint her portrait and to execute various decorative See also:

• WORKS

works . He died in 1770 . His See also:

• WATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721)

Watteau-like See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style and graceful voluptuousness gave him the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the See also:

• ANACREON

Anacreon of See also:

• PAINTING

painting, but his repute declined until See also:

• RECENT

recent years . The See also:

• WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823— )
• WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905)
• WALLACE, SIR RICHARD
• WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1270-1305)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1768-1843)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM (1844-1897)
• WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT (1814-1865)

Wallace collection, at See also:

• HERTFORD
• HERTFORD, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Hertford See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House, has some of his finest pictures, outside the Louvre . His etchings were also numerous and masterly . See See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine Bret's See also:

• NOTICE

notice in the Necrologe See also:

• DES

des hommes celebres for 1771, and the monographs by the See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers de See also:

• GONCOURT, DE

Goncourt and See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul Mantz .