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Born with the decoration of the Valois King Francis I's (1515-1547) chateau at Fontainebleau beginning in 1530 with the arrival of Rosso in France to the deaths of Primaticcio and Niccolo dell'Abate in 1570 and 1571, respectively, during the reign of Charles IX (1560-1574).
Mainly Italian but also Flemish and French artists participated in the grand decorative programme. The central figures were: Rosso, dying in 1540, assisted by Francesco Primaticcio from 1532, whom became his successor. Niccolo dell'Abate joined in 1552. The collaborators on the project merely executed their conceptions and their style greatly influenced the major princely residences of the period including: at Ecouen for the Connetable de Montmorency, at Anet for Diane de Poitiers, at Ancy-le-Franc for Antoine de Clermont.
The surviving canvases at the chateau represent culminating points in Tuscan and Emilian mannerism. The Fontainebleau art penetrated every milieu by the circulation of drawings and the development of engraving workshops whose practioners include Fantuzzi, Davent, and Mignon.
La Charite, Ecole de Fontainebleau circa 1560. - See Louvre notes
Diane chasseresse, Ecole de Fontainebleau
Beauvais 1521 - Paris 1599
La sibylle de Tibur, circa 1575-80. Currently in the Louvre.
Les massacres du Triumviat, 1566. Currenly in the
Louvre.
See Louvre notes
Sens c 1490 - Paris c 1560
Eva Prima Pandora circa 1550. Currently in the Louvre.
The reign of Henry III (1574-1589) characterized by religious and political upheaval retarding artistic activity.
With the reign of the first Bourbon King Henry IV (1589-1610) came a renewal of the chateau at Fontainebleau's decorative enterprises which constitutes a revival and prolongation of the first school of Fontainebleau.
Le Valentin, Le Concert au bas-relief 1622-5 c, Louvre, Paris
Claude Vignon, Le Jeune Chanteur, 1622-3 c, Louvre,
Paris
Simon Vouet, Saint Guillaume
d'Aquitaine ?, Louvre, Paris
Nicolas Regnier, Le Diseuse de bonne aventure, 1626
c, Louvre Paris
Laurent de La Hyre, Le pape Nicolas V, en 1449, se fait
ouvrir le caveau de saint Francois d'Assise, 1630, Louvre
1627 - The Return of Simon Vouet to France
Jacques Blanchard, Venus et les Graces surprises par un
mortel, 1631-3 c, Louvre, Paris
Nicolas Poussin,
L'enlevement des Sabines (The Rape of the Sabines), 1637-8 c, Louvre, Paris
Philippe de Champaigne, Louis XIII couronne par la
Victoire (siege de La Rochelle, 1628), 1635, Louvre, Paris
Simon Vouet,
Le Richesse, 1640 c, Louvre, Paris
J.H. Fragonard's The Swing Francois Boucher's The Rising of the Sun
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, La Grande Odalisque, 1814, Musee d'Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Rome from the Pincio, 1826-7, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Le 28 Juillet - Le liberte guidant le peuple, 1830, Louvre, Paris
Jean-Francois Millet, Madame Eugene Canoville, 1845, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Paul Delaroche, Bonaparte, Franchissant les Alpes, 1848, Louvre, Paris
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Une matinee La danse des nymphes, 1850 (Salon 1850-1)
Gustave Moreau, Les pretendants, 1852, Musee d'Gustave Moreau, Paris
Edgar Degas, Rene-Hilaire De Gas, 1857, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
The influence of Japanese art was being seen. Artists "found simplifications of form, abbreviated and abstracted rendering of space, and a bold, decorative juxtaposition of linear arabesque and pattern, all of which they readily assimilated." (Boyer, see Nabis)
Gustave Courbet, The Diligence in the Snow, 1860, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Edgar Degas, La famille Bellelli dit aussi Portrait de famille, circa 1860-1867, Musee d'Orsay (Salon 1867?)
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863 ?, Musee d'Orsay
Frederic Bazille, La robe rose ou Vue de Castlenau, 1864, Musee d'Orsay
Jules-Elie Delaunay, Charles Hayem, 1865, Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Gustave Moreau, Jason and Medire?, 1865? (Salon)
Maurice Denis,
Les Arbes Verts ou Les Hetres de Kerduel 1893
Maurice Denis,
L'Enfant au tablier ou La Petite Fille a la robe rouge 1899
Henry Edmond Cross, Nachmitag im Garten 1904
Henri Matisse Interior at Collioure (The Rest) 1905
Andre Derain
Tree Landscape on the River Bank 1905
Maurice Vlaminck Potatoe Pickers 1905-7
Georges Braque Landscape at L'Estaque 1906
