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Landscape painting of a peasant family beside a wayside shrine, with a brick church and trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a peasant family in front of a wayside shrine

Adriaen van de Velde, 1650

Painting of a Paris square with women in black dresses, a white poodle, carriages, and a triumphal arch with ruined palace fa

Place du Carrousel and Tuileries in Ruins

Giuseppe De Nittis, 1882

Seated woman in blue tunic holding a red liberty cap on a pole beside a declaration scroll, before a pyramid.

An allegory of the French revolution

Nanine Vallain, 1794

Woman pouring water from a pitcher in a dim kitchen beside carrots, cabbage and a red lantern.

Woman Pouring Water into a Bowl

Gerrit Dou, 1647

Oil sketch of two standing men in white pleated Suliote costumes with embroidered jackets and gold-ornamented shoes.

Two studies of Suliote costumes

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Painting of a woman in white and red drapery running toward a stormy sea beside a lyre on rocks.

Sappho rushing to the sea

Jean-Joseph Taillasson

Painting of a smiling young woman in a gold-sleeved dress reading an open book beside a stack of books.

L’Étude

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1750

Painting of the Visitation: two haloed women embrace before pink and blue Gothic buildings, with gold leaf background.

Visitation (Trinity Altarpiece)

Bartolo di Fredi, 1300

Dim painted kitchen interior with a cabbage, melon slice, broom and copper pot in the foreground and figures in shadow.

Interior of a peasant kitchen

Willem Kalf, 1625

Ceiling painting of Aurora in a chariot drawn by white horses, with putti and flowers, in an ornate gilded octagonal frame.

L'Aurore

Charles Louis Müller, 1851

Painting of a woman in a red robe at an altar as a priest holds an infant, with onlookers and a bowl of doves.

The Purification of the Virgin

Guido Reni, 1635

Crowded 17th-century interior with revelers feasting, drinking, and playing music around a table, with a dog nearby.

Festive Family Meal

Jan Steen, 1674

Painting of a peasant feeding chickens and ducks in a farmyard beside a stone farmhouse and a cart, with a pond in front.

Peasant feeding chickens

Egbert van der Poel, 1625

Gold-ground panel of Saint Christopher in red robe wading through fish-filled water, carrying the child Christ on his shoulde

Saint Christopher (Trinity Altarpiece)

Bartolo di Fredi, 1300

Painting of mounted officers in a forest watching a cavalry battle with smoke rising across the field beyond.

Défaite du comte de Marsin près du canal de Bruges

Adam Frans van der Meulen

Oil painting of a seated turbaned ruler beside a lion while soldiers fire on fleeing horsemen before a fortress.

Le massacre des mamelouks ordonné par Méhémet Ali Pacha (1811)

Horace Vernet, 1819

Oil portrait of a smiling middle-aged man in a blue coat with green collar and red neckcloth, in a gilt frame.

Vivant Denon

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1812

Pastoral landscape with sheep and goats resting by water under a dusky sky, with blue hills in the distance.

Landscape: sheep and goats

Adriaen van de Velde, 1659

Half-length self-portrait of a man in a red cap and brown coat holding a quill pen against a dark background.

Self-portrait

Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1692

Interior view of a Gothic church with white columns, arches, hanging banners, and small figures on a tiled floor.

Interior of the Old Church (Oude Kerk) in Delft

Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet

Oil painting of Christ seated in blue robes with Martha and Mary in an interior, with onlooking men in red and cream robes.

Jesus Christ at the House of Martha and Mary

Painted church interior with tall white columns, a checkered floor, and a central tomb enclosed by railings, with figures and

Choir of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the tomb of William the Silent

Gerard Houckgeest, 1651

Battle of the Granicus: a dense melee of mounted and foot soldiers with rearing horses and a river in the foreground.

Battle of the Granicus

Charles Le Brun, 1665

Painting by Rubens showing dead game birds and produce on a table beside figures, including an old woman in a white headscarf

Philopoemen Recognised by an Old Woman

Peter Paul Rubens, 1616

Genre painting of card players and villagers in a dim tavern interior with a dog, jugs, and a woman holding an infant.

Partie de carte dans une hôtellerie by David Teniers

David Teniers the Younger, 1650

Painting of a seated queen on a golden throne greeting two armored heroes appearing in clouds, surrounded by a crowd in a col

Enée et Achate apparaissant à Didon

Antoine Coypel, 1616

Classical interior with a seated woman in blue, a kneeling vendor with cherubs in a basket, and a standing attendant.

The Cupid Seller

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1763

Painting of hunting dogs attacking a charging wild boar in a wooded landscape under a cloudy sky.

Chasse au sanglier - Desportes Alexandre-François - MBAL A 86

Alexandre François Desportes, 1720

Painting of ruined Roman temple interior with columns, arches and robed figures among scattered stone fragments.

Inside the Temple of Diana in Nîmes

Hubert Robert, 1786

Painting of the dead Christ supported in a shroud by a man, with mourners and two children with a torch in a dark interior.

Entombment of Christ

Giulio Cesare Amidano, 1550

Painting of a harbor at sunset with a large sailing ship, rowboats, a stone fortress, and figures on the shore.

Marine, Sunset

Large painting of a religious procession carrying two bodies on a draped bier through a city street, with clergy, onlookers a

Translation of the Bodies of Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius

Philippe de Champaigne

Gilded triptych: Virgin and Child with angels at center, kneeling donor and wife with saints on side panels, landscapes behin

Triptych of the Sedano family

Gerard David, 1495

Young draughtsman in a dark hat sharpening a pencil at a table with a blue sheet and portfolio, dim background.

Draughtsman

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1737

Half-length portrait of a military officer in dark uniform with gold epaulettes and medals, holding a gold sword cord.

Portrait du général baron Victor Abel de Salle ou Desalles (1776-1864)

Amable Louis Claude Pagnest

Portrait of a woman in a red fur-trimmed cape and black headscarf, with a yellow bow, set within an oval frame.

La Comtesse Tessin

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1741

Painting of an older woman in black with a large white collar and cap, holding white gloves against a brown background.

Portrait of a Woman

Frans Hals, 1648

Painting of the Holy Family with St. John the Baptist and angels in a wooded setting, Virgin in blue robe.

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

Lorenzo Lotto, 1536

A Zebu

Pieter Boel, 1600

Oil sketch of the Colosseum in Rome framed by three large arches of a ruined building, with grass and greenery in the foregro

Rome. - Colisée, vu a travers les arcades de la Basilique de Constantin

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1825

Painting of a dusk plaza with the Tuileries palace and Carrousel arch, a lone figure, carriages and smoke under a pink sky.

Palais des Tuileries after the fire of 1871, seen from the Jardin du Carrousel

Siebe Johannes ten Cate, 1872

Painting of a shepherd gathering two infant twins under a tree, with seated figures by a waterfall and a hillside behind.

" Faustulus recueillant Romulus et Remus"

Nicolas Vleughels, 1724

Fresco detail of a youth with a vine-leaf wreath holding an ivy-wrapped staff, beside a floating putto and grapevines.

Ceilings of the salon des Saisons

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, 1655

Painting of a seated woman on a chariot surrounded by dancing figures, cherubs with garlands, and a wooded landscape under cl

The Triumph of Flora

Nicolas Poussin, 1627

Painting of a white horse, a cow and a sheep in a wooded landscape, with a seated figure resting under a tree.

Landscape with white horse

Dirck van der Bergen, 1650

Circular painting of winged Time lifting nude Truth skyward while Envy and Discord are shown below among rocks and clouds.

Time defending Truth against the attacks of Envy and Discord

Nicolas Poussin, 1641

Circular Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child with young Saint John and an angel holding lilies.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre le petit saint Jean et un ange

Jacopo da Sellaio, 1475

Painting by Rubens of a nude winged youth offering a palm branch to a cardinal in red, with women and cardinals in a classica

Maria de Medici meets her son, with Cardinal de la Rochefoucauld as mediator

Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

Painting of the ruined Colosseum in Rome under a cloudy blue sky, with small figures on a grassy slope in the foreground.

View of the Colosseum in Rome

Achille Etna Michallon

Painting of Rebecca and Eliezer at a well, with women drawing water and a man in a red sash receiving a jug.

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Ferdinand Bol, 1645

Group portrait of an older woman and two young girls in black dresses before a wood-paneled wall with a coat of arms.

Katharina von Gail

Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder, 1536

Pastoral landscape with goats and sheep, herders, a fortified tower, cypress and palm trees, and a distant lake under a blue

Pilgrims at Emmaus

Paul Bril, 1617

Gilded painted cross showing crucified Christ with mourning figures in the arm ends and a pelican at the top.

Painted Cross

Giotto, 1300

Painting of a sunny dirt road with a rider on horseback, a woman walking, tall trees, and a distant town under clouds.

The road from Sèvres to Paris

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850

Oil painting of Minerva guiding a winged nude youth upward toward light and clouds, with cherubs below.

Minerva Leading the Genius of the Arts to Immortality

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1800

Painting of a seated nude woman with an updo on a draped wooden block against a green background.

Mademoiselle Rose

Eugène Delacroix, 1817

Triptych: risen Christ with red banner over sleeping soldiers, flanked by two panels of family portraits with children.

The resurrection of Christ

Erasmus Quellinus II, 1650

Painting of Saint Francis in a rocky cave with arms open as a white bird descends in light, by Laurent de La Hyre.

Landscape with the Stigmatization of Saint Francis

Laurent de La Hyre

Painting of a marshy plain with shallow pools, a distant town, scattered trees, and a small figure under a pale sky.

The swamp (Le Marais)

Théodore Rousseau, 1867

Oil self-portrait of a man in a red turban and dark cloak with gold trim, holding paintbrushes against a dark background.

Self-Portrait in a Turban

Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1698

Painting of an angel leading shepherds, cattle, sheep and goats along a road through a hilly landscape under clouds.

Angel with shepherds + cattle

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1670

Painting of Saint Sebastian tied to a column, pierced by arrows, with ruins and a hilltop town behind him.

St. Sebastian

Andrea Mantegna, 1480

Oval portrait of a woman with dark curls, a poppy and wheat crown, pale blue gowns with gold trim, and red shawl.

Madame Jarre

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1821

Painting of a dark wooded landscape with large trees, a brick ruin, a pond, travelers on a path and a cloudy sky.

Solitude. Ruins near a pond / Solitude. Ruins in the forest

Jan van Kessel, 1660