The Eighteenth century

In the eighteenth century appeared the Rococo and Neoclassicism art, painting turned toward "fêtes galantes", theater settings, and the female nude. Famous painters of this period are: Nicolas Lancret, Antoine Watteau and François Boucher. During the reign of Louis XV the rococo style replace the baroque style. The official painters were François Boucher and J. H. Fragonard by their style were not adopted generally.

In this period the pre-romanticism began to be popular between the artists, italian cappricio paintings inspired to the works of art of Hubert Robert's who used to paint images of ruins. Nicolas de Largillière and Jean-Marc Nattier showed their work with a self-important manner in portraiture. There are other important elements that gave this period a special style, the delicacy, characteristic gracefulness, artificially wild and irrational nature, all of them represented in the work of many artists as Jacques Caffieri and in Sèvres porcelains and André Le Nôtre who changed the geometrical French into the English garden.

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