Jaw-Dropping Francophilia
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Some of the most important works of French art in American museums – masterpieces by Chardin, Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, the Brothers Le Nain, Ingres, Houdon, Claude Lorrain, and Jacques Louis David – have passed through the doors of Wildenstein & Co. The gallery has also mounted spectacular one-person and group shows of Modern artists. To commemorate its centennial, the gallery has gone all out with “The Arts of France from Francois 1 to Napoleon 1: A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein’s Presence in New York.”
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