18th-Century French Portraits

The eighteenth-century French portrait is the art of the Ancien Régime face, from the powdered elegance of the Rococo court to the sober likenesses of the Enlightenment, painted by masters such as Louis Tocqué and his contemporaries.

Our eighteenth-century portraits gather noblemen, elegant women, Rococo sitters and royal likenesses, original antique oils, many of them signed and framed. To place these faces in their age, read our guide to Rococo & the French Eighteenth Century, and for how attribution and dating work in this field, our guide to Collecting 18th-Century French Portraits.