Canaletto [Giovanni Antonio Canal] – Reception of the French Ambassador at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice (1726-1727) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 345

Canaletto [Giovanni Antonio Canal] – The Pier, Seen from the Basin of San Marco (c. 1730-1735)
oil on canvas
Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 344

Canaletto [Antonio Canale] – View of the Doge's Palace, Venice (c. 1768) oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 124

Gianbattista Tiepolo – Venus Receives Mars – fresco
Venice, Palazzo Pisanie
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 129

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – America (1753) detail of a ceiling fresco
in the staircase of the Episcopal Residence, Würzburg
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 300

Francesco Guardi – The Doge of Venice in the Sala del Collegio (1770-1775) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 346

Francesco Guardi – View of a Courtyard (1775-1780) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 347

Jean-Antoine Watteau – The Embarkation for Cythera (1717) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 129

Jean-Antoine Watteau – The Signboard of Gersaint (1721) oil on canvas
Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 353

François Boucher – Le Déjeuner (1739) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 358

Francois Boucher – Madame de Pompadour (1758) oil on canvas
London, Victoria and Albert Museum
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 286

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Back from the Market (1739) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 312

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745).
Charles-André van Loo (1705–1765), brother of Jean-Baptiste.
Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771), son of Jean-Baptiste.
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795), son of Jean-Baptiste.

Jean-Baptiste van Loo – Triumph of Galatea (1720) oil on canvas
St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum

Charles-André van Loo – Halt to the Hunt (1737) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Louis-Michel van Loo – Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Greuze – The Village Bride (1761) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 356

Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Bathers (c. 1765) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 354

Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The High Priest Corésus Sacrifices Himself to Save Callirhoé (1765)
oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Kemp, Oxford History of Western Art, p. 312

Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Bolt (c. 1784) oil on canvas
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 128

Jean-Antoine Houdon – Voltaire (1778-1779) marble
Comédie Française
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 115

William Hogarth – A Scene from the "Beggar's Opera" (1731) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 361

William Hogarth – The Contract (1744) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

William Hogarth – Mariage à la Mode:  The Tête-à-Tête (or: After the Wedding) (1742-1744) oil on canvas
London, National Gallery

For More on Hogarth

Thomas Gainsborough – The Baille Family (c. 1784) oil on canvas
London, Tate Gallery
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 364

Johann Michael Rottmayr – Wisdom and Good Conscience Triumphant over Vice (1717) fresco
ceiling fresco in the Weissenstein Palace, Pommersfelden
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 299

Rosalba Carriera – Louis XV, as Duphin (1720-1721) pastel on paper
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Alte Meister
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 348

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – L'Indovina (The Fortune-Teller) (1740) oil on canvas
Venice, Accademia
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 349

Johann Georg Zieseniss – Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia (1753) oil on canvas
Berlin, Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 360

Elias Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach (1764) oil on canvas
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 359

Pompeo Batoni – The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) oil on canvas
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, Great Paintings of the Western World, p. 301

Joseph Wright of Derby – The Old Man and Death (1774) oil on canvas
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum
Kemp, Oxford History of Western Art, p. 316

Benedictine Abbey, Melk, Austria
Work started by Jakob Prandtauer in 1702; finished by Franz Munggenast in 1747
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 117

Church of San Francisco, Acatepec, Mexico (c. 1730)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 13

Aleijadinho [Antônio Francisco Lisboa] – Nossa Senhora do Carmo, Ouro Prêto, Brazil (1770-1795)
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 130

Miles H. Hodges - 2011