At this period, the Rubens Style dominated everything in France. Rubens had spent eight years in Mantua and we see in his designs a fusion of Flemish and Italian influences. Two years after Rubens's death, Crispin van den Passe published at Amsterdam in 1642 his Boutique Menuiserie, which contains several plates of furniture. The Rubens Style had not abated.

Simon Vouet was one of the artists employed by the splendor-loving Cardinal Richelieu to decorate his Palais Royal and Castle of Rueil.

Goldsmiths were greatly influential in forming the new style; and it is difficult in looking over the work of all the designers of the period to determine what belongs to the reigning fashion and what is original. One of the most original artists is generally conceded to be Delia Bella, "who exhibited a personality so free from all influences that a goodly number of his models would more appropriately pass as belonging to the style of Louis XIV. rather than to that of Louis XIII."