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Painting of a dancing man in a red and brown costume with white ribbons, holding a staff on a checkered floor.

Mezzetin dansant, vers 1720

Ecole française, 1720

Night painting of a lit palace facade with a crowd in period dress along a railing and a statue on the right.

Illumination de la place Louis-XV à l'occasion de la naissance du dauphin, en octobre 1781

Claude Louis Châtelet, 1781

Half-length portrait of a balding man in dark coat and white cravat wearing a tricolour sash, in a gilt frame.

Joseph Chalier (1747-1793), homme politique, "martyr de la Liberté"

François Jean Garneray, 1793

Eighteenth-century street carnival in Paris with drummers, dancing couples, a crowd, and spectators at windows.

Le Carnaval des rues de Paris

Étienne Jeaurat, 1757

Painting of a rocky grotto with waterfalls, classical statues on a ledge, and figures in period dress by a pool beneath trees

Les Bains d'Apollon à Versailles

Hubert Robert, 1803

Street vendor in top hat serving a drink from a brass dispenser to a woman in a green shawl beside an iron fence.

Le Marchand de coco

Augusta Lebaron-Desves, 1843

Four circular allegorical paintings of women and cherubs in gilded decorative frames, with gardens and balustrades.

Esquisse pour la galerie Lobau de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Les chants : Chants patriotiques

Henry Jean Louis Boureau, 1890

Sketch of a seated man tending a cabbage in a garden with blossoming trees, within an arched decorative frame.

Esquisse pour la salle à manger de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Le chou

Georges Jules Bertrand, 1893

Decorative ceiling study with a central roundel of a winged figure on an eagle over nude figures and mountains, flanked by tw

Esquisse pour la salle à manger de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Les Fruits - L'Ambroisie - Les Fleurs (plafond)

Victor Prouvé, 1892

Oval painting of a seated crowned woman with a sword and kneeling figures, flanked by two painted niche figures in a gilded f

Esquisse pour la salle d'audience de la Cour des Assises du Palais de Justice de Paris : La Justice protégeant le faible

Léon Bonnat, 1866

Oval landscape painting of a shepherdess and sheep resting by a grotto, with an arched bridge and trees under a dusky sky.

Bergère et son troupeau à l'entrée d'une grotte

Pierre Patel, 1699

Loose painted sketch of a covered wagon with passengers pulled by grey horses on a road under autumn trees.

Le Chariot

Félix Ziem, 1844

Loose oil painting of several large oak trees in a grassy clearing under a cloudy blue sky.

Les Chênes

Félix Ziem, 1860

Painting of five women in blue dresses working on a tapestry loom, with gold stars on a red background.

La tapisserie (les cinq tisseuses)

Paul Sérusier, 1924

Oil painting of seven men in black hats and white collars gathered around a red-draped table in a dark wood-paneled room.

Les Syndics des drapiers, copie d'après Rembrandt

Félix Ziem, 1853

Painting of gnarled olive trees and tall cypresses over a sunlit grassy path, with a small seated figure by a stone wall.

Oliviers à Menton

Henry Brokman, 1897

Three circular allegorical paintings in a gilded frame showing winged figures, flags and crowds under the words Égalité, Libe

Esquisse pour la mairie du 6ème : Egalité. Liberté. Fraternité

Henri Leopold Lévy, 1887

Dark painting of a nude figure with raised arms beside a robed figure against a warm orange and brown background.

Composition à trois personnages (Flagellation ?)

Seated woman in a black shawl gazing upward, bare feet on a pale stone block, against a warm ochre background.

Venezia

Théobald Chartran, 1900

Allegorical painting of a woman holding a theatrical mask, with a child offering a laurel wreath, a lyre and a city street be

Esquisse pour la mairie du 10ème arrondissement de Paris : Les théâtres

Adrien-Henri Tanoux, 1907

Pale pink oil sketch of nude figures gathering fruit into baskets, with a label reading FRUITS above the framed study.

Esquisse pour la salle des fêtes de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Fruits

Albert Aublet, 1895

Painted sketch of Saint Zacharias, a bearded elderly man in a red cap and yellow robe, standing in a stone architectural nich

Esquisse pour l'église Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle : Saint Zaccharie

Nicolas Auguste Hesse, 1840

Oval painting of a young woman in a dark veil, hands clasped in prayer, looking upward, in a gilt frame.

Jeune femme en prière

Henry Scheffer, 1860

Painting of a woman in a dark robe raising her arm toward a bird above a snowy Paris riverside with church towers.

Le Pigeon voyageur, allégorie à la défense de Paris (1870-1871)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1871

Painting of the Virgin in a red mantle holding the nude infant Christ, who grasps her pale veil on a wooden ledge.

Vierge à l'Enfant, d'après Mabuse

Baroque painting of a gilded chariot with white horses, a robed woman holding a monstrance, and winged putti in clouds.

The Triumph of the Church

Peter Paul Rubens, 1625

Gothic altarpiece panel with a central fountain, an enthroned figure above, and robed clergy and kneeling worshippers below.

The Fountain of Life

Jan van Eyck, 1445

Still life painting of a wine glass, silver goblet, lemon, bread and walnuts on a dark tablecloth against a pale background.

Still life

Pieter Claesz, 1637

Painting of a haloed friar in black habit watching books burn in a fire while richly dressed men look on in a stone hall.

St. Dominic de Guzman and the Albigensians

Pedro Berruguete, 1493

Crowded temple scene with robed figures, sheep, a cow, and scattered coins, painted in warm brown tones.

Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple

Jacopo Bassano, 1568

Painting of market vendors and a child around a stall of melons, grapes and peaches, one man biting a melon.

The Fruiterers

Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, 1650

Painting of a cavalry skirmish with rearing horses, soldiers fighting, a raised flag, and smoke under a dramatic sky.

Skirmish among Enemy Troops

Philips Wouwerman, 1648