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Marie-Christine de Habsbourg Lorraine, Attributed to Martin van Meytens,1765

The beginnings of Rococo In the early years of the 1700s, at the end of the reign of Louis XIV (who dies in 1715), there was a shift away from the classicism and “Grand Manner” (based on the art of Poussin) that had governed the art of the preceding 50 years in France, toward a …