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Painting of a crowded temple interior with spiral marble columns, a robed priest and an infant at a golden basin at center.

Circumcision

Giulio Romano, 1550

Gilded triptych with the Madonna and Child enthroned center and four standing saints on the side panels.

Madonna and Child, Saints Francis, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist and Anthony of Padua

Paolo Veneziano, 1354

Painting of Hercules and Omphale with a nude Omphale leaning toward a seated Hercules holding a distaff, with a cupid and red

Hercules and Omphale

François Lemoyne, 1724

Virgin and Child on a rock beside a stream as a kneeling Dominican monk offers his heart, with a landscape of castle and vill

Madonna and Child with a Dominican Offering His Heart

Joos van Cleve, 1510

Mantegna's Parnassus: dancing muses, a winged horse, and Mars and Venus under a rock arch in a mythological landscape.

Parnassus

Andrea Mantegna, 1496

Madonna and Child: Virgin in red dress and blue mantle holds the Christ Child, who reaches for a goldfinch, under a green arc

Madonna and Child

Master of the Nativity of Castello, 1450

Oil painting of a mythological abduction with nymphs gathering flowers, a chariot on a cliff, and a lakeside town beneath clo

The Rape of Proserpine

Niccolò dell' Abbate, 1560

Madonna and Child enthroned between angels, with two kneeling saints holding crosiers in a gilded Renaissance altarpiece.

Madonna and Child with Angels and St Fredianus and St Augustine

Filippo Lippi, 1437

Gilded panel painting of bearded Saint Anthony Abbot seated among red rocks, holding a staff and a book, with a halo.

Saint Antoine abbé

Pere Lembrí, 1400

Study painting of a reclining leopard and four leopard heads in different poses on an orange ground.

Un léopard et quatre têtes de léopards

Pieter Boel, 1600

Oil portrait of an older officer in dark uniform with silver epaulettes, against a smoky sky with fire.

Le lieutenant général Joseph Dwernicki (1779-1857)

Jean Gigoux, 1832

Painting of a mounted officer in plumed shako and red-and-gold uniform on a rearing horse, with battle smoke behind.

Equestrian portrait of Joachim Murat 1767-1815

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812

Winter landscape with villagers skating and sledding on a frozen canal beside thatched cottages and a bare tree.

Frozen Canal with Skaters

Isaac van Ostade, 1625

Two nuns in white habits with red crosses, one kneeling in prayer and one seated, beside a Latin inscription on a dark wall.

Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnault and Sister Catherine de Sainte Suzanne de Champaigne

Philippe de Champaigne, 1662

Dusk landscape by Corot: a large dark tree, a seated figure, sheep, and a distant domed town under a pale sky.

Souvenir de Castelgandolfo

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a red gown and black gold-trimmed hood, hands clasped, dark background.

Portrait of Margaret of Austria

Master of the Bruges Legend of St. Ursula, 1485

Three nude goddesses before a seated man in red with a golden apple, Cupid above, a peacock and fountain in a landscape.

The Dream of Paris

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1533

Oil painting of the Virgin and Child above a ledge, with a knight in red and a kneeling friar in grey, and cherubs.

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Guy et saint François

Marco Benefial, 1740

Painting of the Nativity with Mary and infant Christ, kneeling shepherds, and angels bearing vessels in clouds above.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Painting of a sunlit forest path with pines, birches, rocks and a small walking figure under a blue sky.

Pins et bouleaux-forêt de Fontainebleau

Constant Dutilleux, 1855

Allegorical ceiling painting of an enthroned Egyptian ruler with winged genius figures, cherubs, and clouds, with scrolls and

Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece

François-Édouard Picot, 2012

Painting of Saint John the Baptist in green and red robes holding a book with a lamb, among rocks and trees on gold ground.

Saint John the Baptist

Gonzalo Pérez, 1450

Ingres painting of seated Homer crowned with a laurel wreath by winged Victory, surrounded by a crowd before a Greek temple.

The Apotheosis of Homer

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1827

Two young women in white and blue gowns seated in a gilded salon, with a man watching from a doorway at right.

Jeunes femmes assises

Eugène Devéria, 1827

Madonna and Child enthroned with Mary Magdalene, St. Bernard, and angels in clouds, painted with gold halos and red and blue

Madonna and Child with St. Mary Magdalene, St. Bernard, Angels, Cherubim and Seraphim

Francesco Botticini, 1480

Ceiling painting of Jupiter enthroned above clouds, offering fire to a chained figure as Minerva and female figures look on.

Vesuvius receives from Jupiter the fire that must consume Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabies

François Joseph Heim, 2012

Painting of a young woman in a white dress and red headscarf beside a fountain, holding a small flower, with trees behind her

Jeune fille grecque à la fontaine

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Painting of a crowded Venetian council chamber with an elaborate gilded ceiling, arched windows, and robed figures.

Le Doge de Venise remercie le Conseil majeur

Francesco Guardi, 1775

Flat Dutch-style landscape with a vast cloudy sky, a village with a church tower and windmill, grazing cows, and figures in t

View of Ilpendam

Anthonie van Borssom, 2017

Oil self-portrait of a man with curly dark hair and mustache, wearing a dark coat and green vest, against a brown background.

Self-portrait with Green Vest

Eugène Delacroix, 1837

Painting of a sickbed scene with a bearded man gesturing to a pale reclining woman, attendants, and a small dog in a red-drap

Saint Francis of Paola Prophesying the Birth of a Son to Louise of Savoy

Theodoor van Thulden, 1640

Painting of a chaotic battle of armed warriors and horsemen among rocky cliffs, with a distant army on a plain.

Épisode de la retraite des Dix Mille

Adrien Guignet, 1843

Painting of the Virgin holding the nude infant Christ on a green cushion, with trees and a distant lake landscape behind.

Madonna of the Green Cushion

Andrea Solari, 1507

Painting of an old bearded man drinking wine as a nude woman pours, with a seated woman at left and a burning city behind.

Lot and his daughters

Painted angel in pink robe with blue and red wings, hands clasped in prayer, against gold leaf background on an arched wooden

Adoring Angel, Looking Left

Fra Angelico, 1430

Painting of a woman in white and a seated man with dogs in a forest clearing, with a river valley and hills beyond.

Charibert, fils de Clotaire, rencontre une jeune bergère

Jean-Victor Bertin, 1819

Painted panel of a banquet with a severed head carried on a gold platter and a figure lying dead at left.

Beheading of St. John the Baptist and Herod's Banquet

Fra Angelico, 1430

Painting of a smiling young man in a red and black striped costume playing a lute against a grey background.

Lute player

Frans Hals, 1624

Oil portrait of a young man with curly dark hair in a black coat, holding a gun with a gloved hand against a dark background.

Portrait de jeune homme en chasseur

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1811

Women in black mantles and white veils visit in an interior, while a mother nurses an infant beside a curtained bed.

Dames de Malte se faisant visite

Antoine de Favray, 1751

Sunset harbor with a large ship, rowboats, classical domed buildings, and richly dressed figures descending marble steps to t

Cleopatra Disembarking at Tarsus

Claude Lorrain, 1642

Oil sketch of a wooded hillside with stone villas, an arched bridge and a tower under a cloudy sky.

À la villa Farnèse: les maisons sur la colline

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1775

Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child with five saints in an arched interior under a blue sky with trees.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Zénobe (?), saint Jean-Baptiste, saint Antoine abbé et saint François d'Assise

Francesco Pesellino, 1455

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, with two angels, white lilies and a distant landscape with trees.

Madonna and Child with Two Angels

Filippino Lippi, 1470

Fra Diamante's 1470 Nativity: kneeling Virgin, Saint Joseph, infant Christ, angels, ox, donkey and shepherd in a landscape.

The Nativity

Fra Diamante, 1470

Formal wedding ceremony in a grand hall with crystal chandeliers, clergy, uniformed courtiers and spectators in galleries.

The Wedding of Leopold I of Belgium and Louise of Orléans

Joseph-Désiré Court, 1837

Oil portrait of a powdered-wig man in brown coat holding a palette and brushes beside an easel and canvas.

Portrait of the painter Jean-Baptiste Oudy (1686-1755)

Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, 1753

Painting of a stormy sky over a sandy beach with breaking waves, a small boat, figures, sheep and a cliff on the right.

Weymouth Bay with approaching storm

John Constable, 1818

Allegorical ceiling-style painting of winged figures and cherubs in clouds above men bringing tribute on a hillside.

Les provinces autrichiennes apportant leur tribut à l'Empire

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1760

Dark Gothic banquet hall with a crowd of armored men and a bishop in gold vestments amid candlelit table and torches.

The Murder of the Bishop of Liège

Eugène Delacroix, 1828

Pastoral landscape with shepherds, sheep, figures by a pond, tall trees and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Paysage arcadien avec bergers et joueur de flûte

Johannes Glauber, 1686

Painting of two sisters in blue and red dresses posed among calla lilies and columns in a garden setting.

Portrait des sœurs Friderike et Betty Bloem

Johann Richard Seel, 1841

Painting of a vaulted forge with smiths, armour and helmets in the foreground, a nude woman and cherub, and a distant eruptin

Fire

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1606

Full-length portrait of a hussar officer in red and gold uniform with a sabre, standing before a smoky battlefield.

Le général comte Fournier Sarlovèze

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1800

Painting of Orpheus with a lyre before the seated Pluto and Proserpina, with a cupid, a dog and a red curtain.

Orphée devant Pluton et Proserpine

François Perrier, 1600

Gold-ground panel painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, who holds a Latin inscribed scroll.

La Vierge et l'Enfant

Paolo da Visso, 1450

Painted church interior with kneeling white-robed monks, a bishop in gold vestments, onlookers in choir stalls, and a golden

Die Einkleidung des heiligen Bruno und des heiligen Hugo

Meister der Brunolegende, 1475

Painting of an oak forest with a dirt path, a gnarled tree on the left, small figures, and a cloudy sky.

La Forêt de chênes

Meindert Hobbema, 2017

Half-length oil portrait of a man with loose hair and a white collar against a dark brown background.

Frédéric Chopin

Eugène Delacroix, 1838

Mercury playing a pipe beside the sleeping Argus, with goats and a large tree in a landscape.

Mercury and Argus

René-Antoine Houasse, 1688

Woman in a dark monk's robe holding a knotted rope beside a desk with a teacup, books and a white cat below.

Louise-Anne de Bourbon, Mlle de Charolais (1695-1758), in a monk’s robe, holding the chord of St. Francis

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1730

Two men at a table with an open ledger, quill, scattered coins and a candle in a wood-paneled room, wearing pink and green he

The Tax Collectors

Marinus van Reymerswaele, 1550

Painting of a crowded open boat with survivors struggling on rough, dark sea under a stormy sky.

Shipwreck of Don Juan

Eugène Delacroix, 1840

Painting of a large oak beside a pond with cattle grazing in a meadow under a cloudy sky.

La Mare

Jules Dupré, 1850

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles gathered around a table in a draped room with a chalice.

La Cène

Gérard Douffet, 1650

Painting of a bearded man in a red turban seated beside a saddle and rifle against a stone wall.

Le turc à la selle

Eugène Delacroix, 1835

Painting of large old trees in a sunlit meadow, with a small seated figure at the base of the largest trunk.

Trees in the Prater

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1833

Painting of a seated nude woman with fish, shells, birds and cherubs in a landscape with a distant sea shore.

Water

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1611

Painting of a shirtless hunter with a spear riding a charging buffalo as a tiger attacks, in a grassland landscape at dusk.

Deer hunting in Java Island

Raden Saleh, 1847

Two helmeted warriors reach toward a bearded half-naked man in a rocky cave, with a ship and arrows in view.

Ulysses and Neoptolemos deprive Philoctète bow and arrows of Hercules

François-Xavier Fabre, 1800

Oil portrait of a young man with long dark hair, red doublet and white collar against a grey oval background.

Portrait de jeune homme

Bernardo Strozzi, 1635

Seated man in brown coat at a table in a room with a window, wall map and pewter jug on the floor.

Buveur

Isaac Koedijck, 1600

Painting of a young artist in red costume gesturing at a Madonna mural while a seated woman holds an infant in a studio.

Raphaël reprenant la pose de son modèle

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, 1820

Night nativity scene with the Virgin, infant Christ, kneeling shepherds and an ox under a thatched shelter.

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Cornelio Brusco, 1650

Elderly woman in a white bonnet praying at a table with bread, cheese and a pewter tankard in a dim interior.

Praying woman at a table, in an interior

Quirijn van Brekelenkam, 1625

Gold-background panel of the Virgin Mary crowned, holding the Christ Child in a rose robe who clutches a small bird.

La Vierge et l'Enfant

Taddeo di Bartolo, 1400

Monks kneel and pray around a deathbed in a dim wooden room while a standing monk raises a crucifix beside a candle.

Death of St Bruno

Eustache Le Sueur, 1645

Painting of figures in a crowded procession, a central figure bending beneath a cross, in warm red and brown tones.

La Montée au Calvaire

Giuseppe Bazzani, 1750

Half-length portrait of a woman with upswept dark hair, wearing a white gown and golden shawl against a dark background.

Portrait of Mrs George Joseph Bell, née Barbara Shaw (1790-1883)

Henry Raeburn, 1806

Four commedia dell'arte figures in costume on a city square, with a harlequin seated on a barrel and a classical column behin

The Tomb of Master André

Claude Gillot, 1710

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna nursing the Christ Child in a blue mantle, under a pointed Gothic arch.

Madonna and Child

Barnaba da Modena, 1370

Oil painting of a dense forest with tall pale-trunked trees, green undergrowth, and a dead tree against a grey sky.

At the Bas-Bréau, at Chailly

Robert Léopold Leprince, 1825

Painting of Christ in blue drapery with a staff meeting a kneeling Mary Magdalene under a tree, with cherubs above.

Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene

Luca Giordano, 1686

Full-length portrait of a young king in armour and blue velvet robe with gold fleur-de-lis, beside a crown and scepter.

Louis XV, King of France and Navarre (1710-1774)

Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1723

Painting of a bearded ruler on a throne receiving a skull from a woman in pink, with a crowd and arcaded hall behind.

Undetermined scene - long called The Justice of Otho

Luca Penni, 1547

Painted palace vestibule with red marble columns, elegant figures on checkered floor, and a distant landscape view.

Vestibule of a Palace

Isaak van Nickelen

Painting of a standing woman in a golden robe holding a fruit, with a basket of fruit and a landscape with a distant town beh

Vestal

Girolamo di Benvenuto, 1400

Oil painting of a dancer in pink costume raising her arms beside a seated tambourine player in an arched room.

Dancer in Cairo

Eugène Giraud, 1866

Painting of a soldier asleep at a table in an interior with a seated woman, violin, and a wall picture.

Soldat endormi (Duck)

Oil painting of Pygmalion kneeling before his nude marble statue as cupids and a goddess hover above in a studio.

Pygmalion amoureux de sa statue Pygmalion adoring his statue

Jean Raoux, 1717

Oil painting of a richly dressed nobleman and a fur-cloaked woman on a stone staircase, with a greyhound in the foreground.

La marquise de Noirmoutiers cherchant à détourner le duc de Guise de se rendre à l'assemblée des Etats de Blois

Charles Durupt, 1832

Painting of armoured knights gathered around a draped bed in a military camp, with a castle tower in the distance.

La mort de Du Guesclin

Nicolas-Guy Brenet

Painting of a reclining youth beside a winged cupid with a torch, and a woman leaning on a rock under trees.

Echo and Narcissus

Nicolas Poussin, 1629

Tintoretto's Coronation of the Virgin: a crowded heavenly assembly of saints and angels swirling around a radiant central lig

The Coronation of the Virgin

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1579

Full-length portrait of a young child in white silk holding a falcon, standing before red drapery.

Child with a Falcon

Philippe de Champaigne, 1625

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a fur-trimmed velvet cap and embroidered gold gown against a red damask background.

Francis I (1494-1547), King of France

Jean Clouet, 1527