The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century

by Christopher Wright

Traces the development of painting in France during the 1600s and profiles the careers of the major French painters of the period

288 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1986

About the author

Christopher Wrightb is a distinguished art historian, who specialises in seventeenth-century painting and is a world authority on Vermeer. He graduated from the University of Leeds and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and has subsequently written over twenty volumes. He has also published articles in many art periodicals including The Burlington Magazine.