comparatively unnoticed. Yet as a colorist he may be
ranked second to none in French art, and in freshness of handling his
work is a model for present-day painters. Diderot early recognized
Chardin's excellence, and many artists since his day have admired his
pictures; but he is not now a well-known or popular painter. The
populace fancies Greuze and his sentimental heads of young girls. They
have a prettiness about them that is attractive, but as art they lack
in force, and in workmanship they are too smooth, finical, and thin in
handling.

PRINCIPAL WORKS: All of these French painters are best
represented in the collections of the Louvre. Some of the
other galleries, like the Dresden, Berlin, and National at
London, have examples of their work; but the masterpieces
are with the French people in the Louvre and in the other
municipal galleries of France.

CHAPTER XIII.

FRENCH PAINTING.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before, Stranahan, _et al._; also
Balliere, _Henri Regnault_; Blanc, _Les Artistes de mon
Temps_; Blanc, _Histoire des Peintres francais au XIX^{me}
Siecle_; Blanc, _Ingres et son OEuvre_; Bigot, _Peintres
francais contemporains_; Breton, _La Vie d'un Artiste_
(_English Translation_); Brownell, _French Art_; Burty,
_Maitres et Petit-Maitres_; Chesneau, _Peinture francaise au
XIX^{me} Siecle_; Clement, _Etudes sur les Beaux Arts en
France_; Clement, _Prudhon_; Delaborde, _OEuvre de Paul
Delaroche_; Delecluze, _Jacques Louis David, son Ecole, et
son Temps_; Duret, _Les Peintres francais en 1867_; Gautier,
_L'Art Moderne_; Gautier, _Romanticisme_; Gonse, _Eugene
Fromentin_; Hamerton, _Contemporary French Painting_;
Hamerton, _Painting in France after the Decline of
Classicism_; Henley, _Memorial Catalogue of French and Dutch
Loan Collection_ (1886); Henriet, _Charles Daubigny et son
OEuvre_; Lenormant, _Les Artistes Contemporains_;
Lenormant, _Ary Scheffer_; Merson, _Ingres, sa Vie et son
OEuvre_; Moreau, _Decamps et son OEuvre_; Planche,
_Etudes sur l'Ecole francaise_; Robaut et Chesneau,
_L' OEuvre complet d'Eugene Delacroix_; Sensier, _Theodore
Rousseau_; Sensier, _Life and Works of J. F. Millet_;
Silvestre, _Histoire des Artistes vivants et etrangers_;
Strahan, _Modern French Art_; Thore, _L'Art Contemporain_;
Theuriet,