Georges de la Tour – The Cheat (1635) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 306

Georges de la Tour – Joseph the Carpenter (c. 1645) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 308

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Nicolas Poussin – The Arcadian Shepherds (1629-1630) oil on canvas
The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 302

Nicolas Poussin – The Arcadian Shepherds [Et in Arcadia ego] (c. 1638) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 121

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Louis Le Nain – Peasant Family in Interior (c. 1640) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 307

Claude Lorrain [Claude Gellée] – Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father (c. 1644) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 121

Claude Lorrain [Claude Gelée] – Seaport at Sunset (1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 305

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Charles Lebrun – Chancellor Séguier on Horseback (1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 309

Charles Lebrun – Mary Magdalene Renoucing All Earthly Vanities (c. 1650) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 118

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Philippe de Champaigne – Cardinal Richelieu (c. 1637) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

Philippe de Champaigne – The Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnault
and the Sister Catherine de Sainte Suzanne de Champaigne (1662) oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

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Jacques Lemercier – The chapel at the Sorbonne (University of Paris) – 1635

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François Mansart – Chateau de Maisons, Maisons-Laffitte, garden facade
(Yvelines, France) (1642-1646)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 125

François Mansart – Val de Grace, church
(the dome was designed, however, by Jacques Lemercier)

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Vaux-le-Vicomte, in Maincy (near Melun southeast of Paris) – 1658-1661
(in cooperation with landscape architect André Le Nôtre and painter-decorator Charles Le Brun)

The Château de Versailles - The Court of Honor (the first stage of rebuilding) – 1664-1668
(again, he cooperated with Le Nôtre and Le Brun)

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Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart – Château of Versailles, garden facade (1669-1685)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 120

Jules Hardouin-Mansart – Church of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris (1676)

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Hyacinthe Rigaud – Louis XIV (1701) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 281

Pierre Puget – Milon of Croton (1670-1683) marble
Commissioned by Louis XIV for the Grounds of Versailles
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 115

Christopher Wren – Saint Paul's Cathedral, London (1675-1708)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 120

Miles H. Hodges - 2011