Favoured by Francis I; he adheres at first to parental teaching; _Mary Stuart_ in her girlhood by Germain le Mannier; _Mary Stuart_ as Dauphine and as Queen of France; _Francis II_; _Charles IX_ by François Clouet; his exquisite drawing of _Margot de France_ at Chantilly; portrait of _Pierre Quthe_ at the Louvre; the portrait of _Odet de Coligny_ at Chantilly; _Catherine de Medicis_ as a collector; her handwriting identified on the margins of drawings at Chantilly, and elsewhere; Corneille de Lyon and the _Dauphin François_; Jean de Court court-painter to Henri III; Carron and the brothers Lagneau; Daniel Dumoustier; his portrait of _Henri, Duc de Guise_; the Quesnels, court-painters to the first Bourbon Kings; the painting of Gabrielle d'Estrées and her two sons at Chantilly.....227 CHAPTER XVIII FROM NICOLAS POUSSIN TO COROT _Dr. Fagon_ by Mathias le Nain; Nicolas Poussin; his drawing of _Daphne_; Gaspar Poussin; Claude Lorraine; Mignard and his portrait of _Molière_; the portrait of _Louis XIV_ by Rigaud; Largillière and his portrait of a _friend of the Condés_; he painted _Liselotte as a Naiad_; the _Princesse de Condé_, wife of Louis Joseph, by Nattier; Desportes and Oudry; a copy by Boucher of a portrait of _Watteau_ by himself; the relations between Crozat and Watteau; Lancret adopts Watteau's style; _Madame Adelaide de France_ by Latour; the portrait of _Georgette_ by Greuze; the small portraits of the Royal Bourbons and of the _Bourbon Condés_ by Fragonard; Ingres; Delaroche and Eugène Delacroix; Descamps represented by no less than ten paintings; Fromentin's _Arab Chiefs hawking in the Sahara_; Meissonier and his great pupil Detaille; Corot and the Barbizon School; the tomb of the Duc d'Aumale by Dubois.....248 INDEX.....279 LIST OF PLATES PLATE I. MARY STUART IN HER GIRLHOOD _Frontispiece_ _Germain le Mannier, Musée Condé._ FACING PAGE II. GUILLAUME DE MONTMORENCY 4 _Attributed to Perréal, Musée Condé._ III. THE CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY 6 IV. ANNE DE MONTMORENCY 8 _François Clouet, Musée Condé._ V. HENRI II DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ 12 _School of François Clouet, Musée Condé._ " GENEVIÈVE DE BOURBON 12 _Beaubrun, Musée Condé._ VI. ANTOINE DE BOURBON 16 " CHARLOTTE DE LA TRÉMOILLE 16 _School of Francois Clouet, Musée Condé._ VII. LOUIS I DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ 18 " HENRI I DE BOURBON, PRINCE DE CONDÉ 18 _School of François Clouet, Musée Condé._ VIII. FRANCIS II 20 _François Clouet, Bibliothèque Nationale._