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Dark painting of figures tending a dead body by candlelight, with a bearded man in red holding a cloth and mourning women.

The Deposition

Jacopo Bassano, 1570

Gold-ground panel of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, with Mary, Simeon holding the infant, and attendant figures und

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

Guido of Siena, 1270

Oil painting of a wedding feast in an arched hall, with seated guests, servants, musicians, a dog and a cat.

Les Noces de Cana

Leandro Bassano

Loose oil sketch of a reclining king on a bed amid nude women, warriors, a gold-harnessed horse, and gold objects.

La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse

Eugène Delacroix, 1826

Oil painting of a seated woman in orange robes carving a name into a tree, with sheep grazing in a wooded landscape.

Herminie grave sur un arbre le nom de Tancrède

Pier Francesco Mola, 1660

Painting of Venus reclining nude on red cushion, Adonis in golden armour with spear, and cupids in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Francesco Albani, 1630

Painting of a vaulted gallery with framed artworks, sculptures, skylights and visitors sketching and strolling.

Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1796

Hubert Robert, 1796

Harbor scene with masted ships, quayside figures in period dress, and a walled town with a tower under a cloudy sky.

Dieppe Harbor

Joseph Vernet, 1753

Painting of the Nativity with Mary holding the infant Christ, shepherds kneeling, an ox, and angels in clouds above.

Adoration of the Shepherds (1688)

Luca Giordano, 1688

Painting of a seated Virgin in pink and blue with an infant, an older bearded man resting at left, under trees and hills.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Simone Cantarini, 1625

Painting of a sunlit town square with brick gabled houses, trees, a church with twin spires, and small figures.

Xanthen, square with the church of St. Victor in the background

Adriaen van de Velde, 1675

Painting of Pan teaching music, with a satyr piping, putti, reclining figures, a classical statue and a dancing nymph in a la

La Leçon de musique de Pan

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Two armored knights on horseback clash in a stormy countryside, one on a white horse with a sword, one on a brown horse with

Confrontation of knights in the countryside

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Oil painting of a rider on a white horse gesturing to a woman holding a tambourine, with soldiers and onlookers nearby.

La Fille de Jephté

Giuseppe Bazzani

Painting of a young woman tracing a shadow on a wall beside a seated young man, a dog, and classical columns.

The Origin of Painting

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786

Painting of a chained, bearded prisoner reaching toward light in a dark stone dungeon beside a sleeping man.

The Prisoner of Chillon

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

Still life painting of grapes, pomegranate, apples, melon, chestnuts and medlars on a ledge, with a small bird among the frui

Nature morte aux nèfles

Luca Forte, 1650

Oil painting of fishermen working on a river with a boat, nets and hanging fish under a stormy sky, with a distant village.

Fishing

Annibale Carracci, 1585

Oil painting of two mounted riders, a groom in green, dogs and shepherds with sheep in a hazy landscape.

The Departure for the Horse Ride

Aelbert Cuyp, 1665

Arched painting of the dead Christ held by the Virgin Mary, surrounded by haloed mourners in red and green robes.

Roverella-Altar für St. Giorgio in Ferrara, Lünettenbekrönung, Szene: Pietà und Heilige

Cosimo Tura, 1474

Two boys in black clothing sit beside a carved four-poster bed with green curtains, one holding an open book, with a small do

Édouard V, roi mineur d’Angleterre, et Richard, duc d’York, son frère puiné, dit Les Enfants d’Édouard

Paul Delaroche, 1830

Double étude d'une tête de vieillard, par Jacob Jordaens

Jacob Jordaens, 1618

Devotional painting of the Virgin and Child surrounded by saints and a kneeling donor against a blue sky.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entourés de saint Jean-Baptiste, sainte Marie- Madeleine ?, saint Georges, saint Pierre et un d…

Giovanni Bellini, 1490

Painting of a wooded lane with a herder driving cattle along a sunlit path beneath autumn trees and a cloudy sky.

L'Automne

Jules Dupré, 1800

Painting of Perseus flying to rescue chained Andromeda from a sea monster, with nymphs, Cupid and onlookers on a stormy shore

Persée délivrant Andromède

Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1727

Oil painting of a weathered wooden bridge over a shallow river under a cloudy sky, with low hills in the distance.

Le pont de bois

Eugène Isabey, 1825

Painted interior of a long gallery with paintings, marble statues, skylights and visitors in period dress.

Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1789

Hubert Robert, 1790

Night seascape of a robed figure walking on stormy water toward a boat with lantern light and a crescent moon.

Le Christ marchant sur les eaux

Francis Danby, 1826

Painted gallery interior with marble columns, framed Roman city views, classical statues and gentlemen gathered in the foregr

Modern Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1750

Painting of robed figures searching open wooden chests beside a ruined temple in a wooded classical landscape with sheep.

Laban Searching Jacob's Baggage for the Stolen Idols

Laurent de La Hyre, 1647

Painting of figures seated at a draped table with bread and wine, children and a dog in the foreground, arched doorway at rig

The Supper at Emmaus

Mathieu Le Nain, 1650

Panoramic painting of a walled city over a valley, with mounted figures in period dress in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

View of the City of Luxemburg from the baths of Mansfeld (taken on 3 June 1684)

Adam Frans van der Meulen, 1675

Triptych of Christ as Salvator Mundi with Mary and a saint, flanked by a saint with a book and Mary Magdalene in landscapes.

Triptych with Mary, Christ as Salvator Mundi and St. John the Evangelist

Rogier van der Weyden, 1450

Loose oil sketch of two Greek soldiers in white skirts and embroidered jackets, one dancing with arms raised, against a dark

Two Greek soldiers dancing

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Painting of a triumphal procession with a figure in a red cloak on a golden chariot, revelers, horses and classical columns.

L'Entrée de Marc-Antoine à Ephèse

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1741

Painting of haloed saints being beheaded before soldiers, a walled town, and tall cypress trees under a blue sky.

The Beheading of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Fra Angelico, 1425

Painting of a bacchanal in a wooded landscape: a woman in blue plays a lute, satyrs and putti gather, and a man holds grapes.

Bacchanal with a Lute Player

Nicolas Poussin, 1620

Painting of nude Apollo flaying a bound satyr beneath a tree while other satyrs and two draped women watch in a forest.

Apollo Flaying Marsyas

Filippo Lauri, 1650

Gilded altarpiece showing Christ crowning the Virgin Mary, with musician angels and standing saints in side niches.

The Coronation of the Virgin

Juan de Sevilla, 1440

Panel painting of Christ bound to a column while soldiers and onlookers gather under Gothic arches, with angels below.

The Flagellation of Christ

Jaume Huguet, 1455

Painting of a bearded man bitten by a viper at a bonfire, with robed onlookers, soldiers and a domed building behind.

Saint Paul Bitten by a Viper on the Island of Malta

Maerten de Vos, 1568

Head of a lion

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Painting of nude women bathing in a grotto stream as a hunter with stag antlers and a red cloak approaches with dogs.

Diana and Actaeon

Giuseppe Cesari, 1603

Gothic altarpiece panels showing the Annunciation with Saint Anne holding Mary and Christ, and Saint Anthony with a book and

L'Annonciation - Sainte Anne Trinitaire ('Anna Selbdritt') - Saint Antoine abbé

Bartholomäus Zeitblom, 1475

Group of men gathered in a classical studio interior with an easel, busts, and wall reliefs, painted in 1798.

Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1798

Painting of Venus on a cloud with nymphs, above a ring of dancing cupids on a sandy shore under a blue sky.

Vénus entourée de nymphes regardant une ronde d'Amours

Sebastiano Ricci, 1710

Painting of a harbor at sunset with sailing ships, rowboats, classical buildings and figures on the quay.

Sea Port at Sunset

Claude Lorrain, 1639

Oil painting of a helmeted warrior holding his hand over a brazier before a seated crowned ruler, with soldiers and a fallen

Mucius Scaevola, by Jacques Dumont (1747)

Jacques Dumont le Romain, 1747

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ at center in a halo, surrounded by apostles at a long table under a dark drape.

The Last Supper

Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1618

Dark kitchen still life with an overturned copper pot, stoneware jug, onions, sticks and a wooden bucket on a floor.

Kitchen-still life

Willem Kalf, 2017

Oil painting of a cylindrical tower and low building on a hill under a grey sky, with hazy hills stretching into the distance

Le palais de Nemi

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1775

Still life of a lobster, hare, pheasant and jay beside a hunting gun and bag, with a distant landscape and riders.

Nature morte au homard et trophées de chasse et de pêche

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Painting of armored soldiers and women with infants amid a battle before a fortified city with spears and horses.

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

Jacques-Louis David, 1799

Painting of Greek women in white robes filling water jars at a fountain beneath a colonnade, with a sea view behind.

Greek Women at a Fountain

Dominique Papety, 1841

Painting of a levitating friar in prayer, two angels in a kitchen with cherubs, copper pots, bowls and produce.

The Angels Kitchen

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1646

Painting of a barking brown and white dog attacking white geese and goslings beside rocks and straw.

Dog throws himself at geese

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1769

Panoramic painting of a Roman plaza with an amphitheater, soldiers killing people, and classical statues on pedestals.

The Massacres of the Triumvirate

Antoine Caron, 1566

Rubens painting of a queen kneeling for crowning in a Gothic church, with clergy, cardinals, courtiers and angels above.

The Coronation of Marie de' Medici in Saint-Denis

Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

Painting of a crowded dim prison hall with a barred doorway, a seated man, a woman with an infant, and a soldier with a rifle

Calling Out the Last Victims of the Terror at Saint Lazare Prison on the 7-9 Thermidor 1794

Charles Louis Müller, 1850

Painting of a ferry with a cart and passengers arriving at a river bank beneath willow trees, with a sailing boat on the righ

L'Arrivée du bac

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1635

Painting of a woman in a white dress reclining in a forest stream, one arm raised to a tree branch.

The death of Ophelia

Eugène Delacroix, 1853

Painting of a green valley with rolling hills, a rocky ridge, and a cart with figures crossing a stream.

Paysage

Théodore Rousseau, 1830

Two running figures in a hilly landscape, a woman in blue drapery fleeing a young man in yellow, with a cupid on a cloud abov

Apollo and Daphne

Francesco Albani, 1615

Painting of two women with a mirror in a dark garden, with flying cupid, putti, white doves, and a red parrot.

Rinaldo and Armida

Domenichino, 1610