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| c. 1720 |
| | The lighter rococo style, beginning in France, becomes an extension of the baroque | |
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| 1721 |
| | Jean-Antoine Watteau paints the most splendid shop sign in history, for his friend Gersaint | |
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| 1751 |
| | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1752 |
| | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| 1768 |
| | A French artist, Jean Baptiste le Prince, discovers the aquatint technique in printmaking | |
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| 1778 |
| | 15-year-old Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun earns enough from painting portraits to support the rest of her family | |
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| 1783 |
| | Jacques-Louis David, establishing a reputation with his severe classical paintings, is elected to the French academy | |
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| 1785 |
| | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
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| 1789 |
| | The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court | |
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| 1801 |
| | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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