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America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting: 1937

Jacques Louis David, Portrait of Jacques-François Desmaisons, 1782, oil on canvas, Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; General Purchase Funds, 1944

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Jean Honoré Fragonard, The Useless Resistance (La Résistance inutile), c. 1770, oil on wood panel, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Mr. and Mrs. E. John Magnin Gift

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Nicolas Lancret, Luncheon Party in a Park (Le Déjeuner de jambon), c. 1735, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

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