French Baroque Paintings

French Baroque painting encompasses seventeenth-century narratives, portraits, and landscapes. Poussin and Claude Lorrain developed much of their art in Rome, arranging classical subjects and landscapes through form and light. In France, Vouet’s large commissions and Champaigne’s portraits served religious and courtly settings. Georges de La Tour gave candlelit figures and familiar encounters a concentrated setting; these differing subjects and patrons place French Baroque painting beyond a single court style.