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Half-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with a large white lace ruff and pearl necklace, against a dark background.

Portrait of a Lady with a Ruff

Michiel van Miereveld, 1638

Painting of the crucifixion with Christ center, two thieves on crosses, and a mounted soldier in armor on a white horse below

The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1536

Still life of a bread basket, pottery, glass jars, sweet pastries and candied fruit on stone ledges against a dark background

Still Life with Sweets and Pottery

Juan van der Hamen y Léon, 1627

Half-length painted portrait of a man in a dark suit and bow tie, hand resting on a table beside a red book.

Portrait of a Man

Thomas Skynner, c. 1845

Interior genre scene: a young couple at an open door, a dog, and an older man reading a newspaper by a tea table.

The Bashful Cousin

Francis William Edmonds, c. 1841-1842

Seated older woman in black dress, white ruff and lace cap, holding a gold book, against a brown background.

Portrait of a Woman Aged Sixty

Frans Hals, 1633

Oval black-and-white reproduction of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat and deep lace collar, dated 1634.

Oval portrait of a man wearing a split-sleeve jacket with flat lace collar and broad-brimmed hat

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Woman in white cap writing at a table while a maid stands by a window in a room with a checkered floor.

Woman Writing a Letter, with her Maid

Johannes Vermeer, 1670

Oil portrait of a woman with auburn hair in a black dress and white lace collar against a dark background.

Portrait of Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), Poet

John Butler Yeats, 1899

Three women in white gowns and powdered hair gather around a writing table in front of red drapery and a garden view.

The Ladies Waldegrave

Joshua Reynolds, 1780

Painting of ruined Gothic arches of an abbey seen through a stone archway, with small figures and a cloudy sky.

Ruines de l'ancienne abbaye de Montmartre, dite abbaye d'en bas

Félicie Tiger, 1840

Painting of a smiling bearded man in a straw hat at a desk with white cats, an inkwell, and a woman by a window.

Portrait d'Alexandre Schanne (1823-1887), modèle du "Schaunard" de "La Vie de Bohème" de Murger

Léon Dehaisne, 1880

Painting of a street battle with a tricolour flag, a man raising a sword, soldiers firing from a balcony, and bodies on the g

Combat de la rue de Rohan, le 29 juillet 1830

Hippolyte Lecomte, 1831

Half-length self-portrait of a woman in a yellow headscarf and green dress against a dark background.

Autoportrait de Madame Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Oval miniature portrait of a young woman with curled powdered wig, white fichu and pink dress, in a gilt frame.

Portrait d'une jeune femme en perruque bouclée

François Ferrière, 1789

Portrait of an older man in a dark suit beside a worktable, with sculptures and a studio interior behind him.

L'atelier du sculpteur Henri Allouard

Léon Eugène Maxime Faivre, 1905

Interior scene with a cellist, a lute player, a dining party and a servant in a richly decorated room with checkered floor.

Van Dyck à Londres

Camille Roqueplan, 1837

Painting of a waterfall over rocky cliffs with a ruined temple, figures fishing in the foreground, and a distant aqueduct.

Les Cascatelles de Tivoli

Joseph Vernet, 1748

Dim church interior with a glowing priest at the altar rail and dark silhouetted worshippers in the foreground.

La Communion

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1860

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair and a mustache, in a dark jacket, glancing sideways against a brown background.

Portrait d'Alexandre Falguière

Carolus-Duran, 1870

Oil sketch of a man in black coat and white wig raising a sword, against a warm brown background.

Esquisse de détail pour l' Hôtel de Ville de Paris : La voûte d'acier, figure d'un édile parisien bras levé, tenant u…

Jean-Paul Laurens, 1888

Painting of a helmeted man in green and blue robes holding a flowering staff and a red shield with a black serpent.

Le Droit Coutumier

Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1881

Dusky woodland landscape with dark trees silhouetted against a warm, cloudy twilight sky.

Sous bois

Henri Harpignies

Painted portrait of a bearded man in a gray suit leaning on a column in a dim interior, by Albert Besnard.

Portrait de Françis Magnard

Albert Besnard, 1884

Painting of Moses raising a bronze serpent on a staff while suffering people writhe and kneel around him under a stormy sky.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis : Le serpent d'airain

Constant ou Constantin-Louis-Félix Smith, 1819

Painting of a haloed woman in black and blue robes with arms raised before a cross on rocky ground.

Esquisse pour l'église de Bagnolet : Mater dolorosa

Pierre Fritel, 1878

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair, dark coat and white collar, against a warm brown background.

Etienne Arago (1803-1892), auteur dramatique, homme politique, directeur des Postes en 1848, maire de Paris (4 septem…

Horace Vernet, 1854

Oval portrait of a man in a gray wig, black coat and white cravat against a dark background, in a gilded frame.

Portrait de Jean-Charles Pierre Lenoir

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1778

Oil portrait of a seated older man with powdered grey hair, white jacket and fan, against a dark green background.

Francisco Bayeu

Francisco Goya, 1795

Oil painting of a woman nursing an infant while holding up an apple, with two other nude infants beside her against a dark ba

Charity

Isidoro Bianchi