Large-scale critical look at French painting from David to Cézanne. Text by Jean Leymarie, translated into English by James Emmons. Only some of the artists and other figures mentioned in the text include Jean Adhémar, August AIguier, Claude-François-Théodore Aligny, , Georges Anthony, Louis Aragon, Zacharie Astruc, Jules-Robert Auguste, Antoine Bail, Edouard Baille, Honoré de Balzac, Armand Barbès, Maurice Barrès, F.J. Barrias, Albert Bartholomé, Lorenzo Bartolini, Antoine-Louis Barye, Charles Baudelaire, Frédéric Bazille, Kurt Berger, George Berkeley, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, François-Edouard Bertin, Jean-Victor Bertin, Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, Charles Blanc, Louis-August Blanqui, Guillaume Bodinier, Nicolas-Didier Boguet, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Joseph-Ferdinand Boissard de Boisdenier, Jean-Jacques Boissieu, Rosa Bonheur, François Bonhommé, Richard Parkes Bonington, Pierre Bonnard, François Bonvin, François Boucher, Eugène Boudin, Louis Boulanger, Félix Bracquemond, Georges Braque, Jacques-Raymond Brascassat, Jean Briant, Gustave Brion, Lazare Bruandet, Pieter Bruegel, Alfred Bruyas, Max Buchon, Lord Byron, Louis Cabat, Gustave Caillebotte, Antonio Canova, Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, Vittore Carpaccio, L.H. Carrand, Jean Cassou, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Cennino Cennini, Paul Cézanne, Philippe de Champaigne, Champfleury, A. Champion, Emile Champmartin, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Théodore Chassériau, François-René de Chateaubriand, Paul Chenavard, André Chénier, Antoine Chintreuil, Victor Chocquet, Frédéric Chopin, Charles Clément, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Michel Clodion, François Clouet, Léon-Mathieu Cochereau, François Colin, John Constable, Jean-Antoine Constantin, Frédéric Cordey, Pierre Corneille, Correggio, Pietro da Cortona, John Sell Cotman, Dante, Charles-François Daubigny, Honoré Daumier, Adrien Dauzats, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, Edgar Degas, Alfred Dehodencq, Charles Delaberge, Paul Delaroche, Robert Delaunay, Jean Delécluze, Gaston Delestre, Abbé jacques Delille, Loys Delteil, Jean-Louis Demarne, Maurice Denis, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Jean-Baptiste Deperthes, André Derain, Achille Devéria, François Devosge, Denis Diderot, Ambroise-Firmin Didot, Désiré Dihau, Louis Dimier, Camille Doncieux, Gustave Doré, Gerard Dou, Martin Drolling, Jean-Germain Drouais, Raoul Dufy, Pierre Dupont, Jules Dupré, Paul Durand-Ruel, Edmond Duranty, Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Duret, Anthony van Dyck, L. Eitner, Marius Engalière, William Etty, François-Xavier Fabre, Henri Fantin-Latour, Elie Faure, Félix Fénéon, Anselm Feuerbach, Copley Fiedling, Charles-Antoine Flajoulot, Hippolyte Flandrin, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Focillon, Jean-Louis Forain, Jean Fouquet, Edmond-Edouard Fournier, Honoré Fragonard, Anatole Franca, François-Louis Français, Louis-Thomas Francia,Caspar David Friedrich, Lorens Frölich, Eugène Fromentin, Jan Fyt, Thomas Gainsborough, David Garrick, Paul Gauguin, Théophile Gautier, Gavarni, François Gérard, Solomon Gessner, Jean Gigoux, Louis Gillet, Giorgione, Giotto, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Thomas Girtin, Charles Gleyre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edmond de Goncourt, Jean Goujon, Charles Dounod, Francisco de Goya, François-Marius Granet, Domenicos Theotokopoulos Greco, Prosper Grésy, André Grétry, Jean-Antoine Gros, Francesco Guardi, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Paul Guigou, Armand Guillaumin, Edouard Manet, Stéphane Mallarmé, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, et al. Includes bibliogrpahy, general index, and list of plates. Printed in color and black-and-white, with color plates tipped-in.