Yuriko Jackall is curator of French paintings at the Wallace Collection, London

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The Four Ages of Man: Youth (detail; by 1735), Nicolas Lancret. National Gallery, London

Channel crossings – Britain’s patchy history of collecting French art

A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste

3 Apr 2019

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