Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Allegory of the Continent of Asia, ca. 1750 (National Gallery, London).

 

Oil on canvas: 43 x 48 cm.

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Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo. Young Woman with a Macaw, ca. 1760 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

Oil on canvas: 71 x 53.4 cm.

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Alexander Roslin. Zoie Ghika - Moldavian Princess, 1777 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 64.7 x 53 cm. No wig in 1777.

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Louis Jean François Lagrenée. Mercury, Herse and Aglaura, 1767 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 70 cm.

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Jan Kupecký. Self-Portrait of the Artist with his Wife and Son (‘A művész önarcképe feleségével és kisfiával’), ca. 1719 (Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest).

Oil on canvas: 113 x 91.2 cm.

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Anton Raphael Mengs. Unfinished Portrait of Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, 1775 (private collection, USA).

Oil on wood: 88.5 x 69.7 cm. Auctioned at Christie’s London in 2012. Acquired by Anderson Cooper in 2016. A finished version (copy?) at the Palacio de Liria (La Fundación Casa de Alba, Madrid).

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Jean-Siméon Chardin. The Attributes of the Arts and the Rewards which are accorded Them, 1766 (Minneapolis Institute of Art).

Oil on canvas: 145.4 x 113 cm. Identical version (copy?) at the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

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Nöel-Nicolas Coypel. The Rape of Europa, 1722 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 90.2 x 102.2 cm. Nöel-Nicolas Coypel (1690-1734): son of Noël Coypel (1628-1707) and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel (1661-1722).

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry. A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742 (Cleveland Museum of Art).

Oil on canvas: 98.2 x 73.5 cm. The Dürer and Hoffmann hares: here and here.

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Anne Vallayer-Coster. Still Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals (‘Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles’), 1769 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 97 cm.

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Johann Georg de Hamilton. Kladruber stallion ‘Cerbero’ performing a capriole (‘Kladruber Hengst Cerbero in der Kapriole’), 1721 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on copper: 49 x 64 cm.

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Giuseppe Maria Crespi (attributed). A Shepherdess playing the Flute, ca. 1720 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 95 x 77 cm (possibly reduced). Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, December 2017. The modern looking composition is due to a restoration. The work is thought to have been part of a larger canvas, as the roughly cut right-hand edge would suggest. Great ear.

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Joshua Reynolds. Portrait of Sarah Campbell, 1778 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven/ USA).

Oil on canvas: 127.6 x 101.6 cm.

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François Boucher. The Triumph of Venus, 1740 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 162 cm.

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Jean-Étienne Liotard. The Chocolate Girl ('La Belle Chocolatière'), ca. 1745 (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden).

Pastel on parchment: 82.5 x 52.5 cm.

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Jean Étienne Liotard. Still Life - Tea Set, ca. 1782 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on canvas on board: 37.8 x 51.6 cm.

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Luis Egidio Meléndez. Still Life with Melon and Pears, ca. 1772 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Oil on canvas: 63.8 x 85.1 cm.

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Louis Jean François Lagrenée. Cupid and Psyche, 1767 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 55 x 71 cm.

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Thomas Gainsborough. The Painter’s Daughters with a Cat, ca. 1761 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on canvas: 75.6 x 62.9 cm. Earlier portrait at the Victoria and Albert Museum: here.

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Jean-Siméon Chardin. The White Tablecloth, 1732 (Art Institute of Chicago).

Oil on canvas: 96.8 x 123.5 cm.

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