This is the french edition of the exhibition catalogue relating about Peintures françaises dans les collections allemandes.
Most of the works are grouped by genre (religious and mythological painting; portraits, landscapes, still lifes…), but one section is devoted to oil sketches and another exclusively to paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
Other French masters are well represented in the exhibition: Simon Vouet, Valentin, Largillierre, Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze…
As a complement to the catalogue published by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and its German partners, a complete inventory of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French works in German public collections will be published in Germany to coincide with the exhibition.
This is a sound piece of scholarship which will be useful to art historians as well as art lovers interested in French painting from Henri IV to Napoleon