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Painting of the Annunciation: an angel offers a white lily to the kneeling Virgin Mary, with cherubs and a dove above.

L’Annonciation

Eustache Le Sueur, 1625

Gilded panel painting of a bishop saint with a jeweled mitre, holding a crozier, against a gold leaf background.

St. Louis of Toulouse

Antonio Vivarini, 1450

Oil self-portrait of a young man in a black coat beside a painter's palette, hand resting on a book over red cloth.

Self-portrait

Théodore Chassériau, 1835

Two women in a dusky landscape, one in blue with a white veil and one in pink with a yellow headscarf, facing each other.

Ruth et Noemi, 1855

Ary Scheffer, 1850

Painting of the Madonna nursing the Christ child, crowned, surrounded by musical angels and a lemon branch frame.

Madonna and Child with Angels

Marco Zoppo, 1453

Oil painting of a nude woman seated by a garden terrace, covering herself with a cloth, with a shadowy face among foliage.

Susanna

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Young woman seated before an easel in a studio, painting on canvas, with framed works and sculptures on the walls.

L'Atelier de l'artiste : Jeune femme assise devant un chevalet

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Painting of the Annunciation: the Virgin in gold and black before a lectern, an angel with a lily flying in from above.

L'Annonciation

Carlo Braccesco, 1400

Full-length painting of a young man in a green coat raising a top hat, with a sword and a cloudy landscape behind him.

Antoine Philippe de la Trémoille, prince de Talmond, général vendéen

Léon Cogniet, 1826

Painting of armored Saint Michael with raised sword and shield, standing over a demon amid grotesque creatures and a burning

Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan

Painting of a cavalry officer in fur shako on a rearing grey horse with leopard-skin saddle, sabre raised, smoky battlefield

The Charging Chasseur

Théodore Géricault, 1812

Crowned Virgin hands a golden chasuble to a kneeling cleric while angels and saints watch in a Gothic setting.

The Imposition of the Chasuble on Saint Ildephonsus

Master of San Ildefonso, 1450

Gilded panel of a haloed saint dragged by rope behind a horse, surrounded by armed riders and spearmen under a red banner.

Saint George dragged through the city of Diospolis

Bernat Martorell, 1430

Painting of the Crucifixion with three crosses, angels above, mourners and mounted soldiers below, against dark sky and mount

Crucifixion

Giotto, 1330

Painting of a young woman with long hair, hands crossed on her chest, gazing upward against a glowing orange background.

L'Immaculée Conception

Anton Raphael Mengs, 1770

Full-length portrait of a cardinal in red silk robes holding a red hat, against a dark patterned curtain.

Le Cardinal de Richelieu

Philippe de Champaigne, 1639

Portrait of Francis I

Titian, 1538

Virgin Mary in red and blue robes with the infant Christ and young John the Baptist in a landscape with a town.

Madonna with Child and St John

Painting of a kneeling friar gazing up at a violin-playing angel and putti in clouds, with a skull and open book in the foreg

St. Francis in Extasy

Filippo Lauri, 1650

Half-length portrait of a man with curly hair, lace collar and dark cloak, one hand resting on a hat, against a grey backgrou

Portrait d'homme

Eustache Le Sueur, 1600

Painting of a gutted theatre with smoke rising, firefighters spraying water, and onlookers gathered among ruined arched walls

La fin de l'incendie du théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, deuxième salle du Palais-Royal, le 8 juin 1781

Hubert Robert, 1758

Oil portrait of a young man with a white turban, red vest and yellow shirt against a dark background.

Portrait présumé de Hassan, gardien de la girafe de Charles X

Claude-Marie Dubufe, 1826

Nativity painting: Virgin Mary kneels before newborn Christ with Joseph, an ox and donkey, and angels above.

Nativity

Juan Correa de Vivar, 1530

Painting of the Giralda tower beside a Gothic cathedral facade, with orange trees and figures in a sunlit courtyard.

La Giralda de Séville

Adrien Dauzats, 1839

Gold-ground altarpiece panel of the Presentation at the Temple with the Virgin, Christ Child, high priest and attendant figur

The Presentation at the Temple

Bartolo di Fredi, 1388

Allegorical ceiling-style painting of winged figures, a warrior and cherubs in the sky above soldiers gathered at stone steps

Allégorie de la vie militaire

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1760

Oil study of a nude man bending forward, one foot raised on a wooden block, against a dark brownish background.

Study of a man

Achille Etna Michallon, 1803

Full-length painting of a figure in white costume and wide hat standing before a landscape, with companions and a donkey near

Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718

Portrait of a woman in black dress with gold embroidered bodice, white lace collar and cap, beside a wooden chair.

Portrait of Catharina Both van der Eem (1589-1666)

Frans Hals, 1620

Medieval panel of the Madonna holding the Christ Child against a gold background, wearing a dark blue mantle and white veil.

Madonna and Child

Ugolino di Nerio, 1315

Gilded panel of Christ on a blue cross above a kneeling haloed saint in a rocky landscape, framed in gold.

Le Christ en croix adoré par saint François d'Assise

Giovanni di Tommasino Crivelli, 1400

Religious panel painting of the Virgin and Child enthroned with two saints and two angels beneath a fruit garland.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Jean Évangéliste, sainte Brigitte de Suède et deux anges

Ansano di Michele Ciampanti, 1450

Landscape painting of river fishermen, an arched aqueduct, waterfall and tall trees under a cloudy sky, by Joseph Vernet.

Matin sur terre : la pêche en rivière

Joseph Vernet, 1766

Painting of a young boy in striped embroidered costume beside a large pale hound with a red crested collar.

Cardinal Granvelle's Dwarf

Antonis Mor, 1560

Smiling figure with feathered cap and blue gold-trimmed jacket tuning a lute against a dark background.

Femme acoordant son luth

Gerard van Honthorst, 1624

Two haloed saints in dark and white robes stand before a red patterned background, one holding a palm and book.

Saint Étienne et saint Ange le carme

Carlo Braccesco, 1400

Nude young man with red drapery and spears confronts a winged sphinx on rocks, with a skull at his feet and a city beyond.

Oedipus and the Sphinx

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1808

Gilded panel of the Virgin and Child enthroned between two angels, with cherub heads above, dated 1501.

La Vierge et l'Enfant trônant entre deux anges

Vittore Crivelli, 1501

Painting of Madonna in blue mantle holding Christ Child with halo, before classical columns and a landscape view.

Madonna and Child

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1476

Oil portrait of a young man with tousled dark hair, wearing a blue scarf and dark coat, against a brown background.

Alexandre Colin

Théodore Géricault, 1816

Painting of a rider in a bicorne hat on a dark horse crossing a snowy mountain pass, led by a guide with a pole.

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

Paul Delaroche, 1848

Interior genre scene of women in pink silk gowns, a bowing man in gold brocade, and a small dog on a patterned floor.

Presentation

Pietro Longhi, 1741

Painting of Saint Sebastian bound to a tree with a halo, executioners pulling ropes at his feet, and a plumed soldier watchin

The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Biagio Manzoni, 1650

Painting of a kneeling bearded friar in prayer, with an angel and cherubs above and a harbor town on the sea behind.

Saint Conrad Confalonieri

Giovanni Lanfranco, 1618

Painting of Venus embracing Adonis, with a Cupid and two hunting dogs in a dark wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Luca Cambiaso, 1560

Painting of the Madonna and Child with saints John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene before a river landscape.

The Madonna and Child with Sts John the Baptist and Mary Magdalen

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1511

Painting of costumed commedia dell'arte actors, including Pierrot and a masked harlequin, in a wooded setting.

Les acteurs de la Comédie italienne

Nicolas Lancret, 1716

Painting of Judith in a jeweled turban holding a sword and the severed head of Holofernes, with an older woman behind her.

Judith tenant la tête d'Holopherne

Georges Lallemand, 1605

Oil portrait of a man in a grey coat and white cravat, holding gold scissors over paper against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Francisco Goya, 1806

Portrait of a bearded man in black armour beside red drapery, a plumed helmet on a red-draped table, marble floor.

Henry IV, King of France in Armour

Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1610

Painting of the Virgin and Child in clouds above St Luke in red robes and St Catherine with a book, with a landscape behind.

The Virgin Appears to Sts Luke and Catherine

Annibale Carracci, 1592

Virgin and Child flanked by two haloed saints on stone pedestals, with a Latin inscription along the lower edge.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre saint Jean-Baptiste et saint Jean l'évangéliste

Antoniazzo Romano, 1480

Virgin and Child seated on a pedestal with a bearded bishop saint and an armored saint beside them, with a putto behind a cur

Virgin and Child between St Benedict and St Quentin

Sisto Badalocchio, 1618

Oil painting of the Madonna in a red robe and gold veil holding an oak sprig, with a nude infant on a blue drape.

Madonna and child

Simon Vouet, 1640

Full-length portrait of a man in a black hat and silver doublet beside a grey horse under a large tree.

Charles I at the Hunt

Anthony van Dyck, 1635

Painting of a woman in red and green with a white headscarf, embracing a young girl in a dark dress against a brown backgroun

Madame Rousseau et sa fille

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789

Painting of mounted riders in white and red robes fighting with sabres, horses rearing, a fallen rider in the foreground.

Combat de cavaliers arabes

Théodore Chassériau, 1856

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ in a gilded arched frame with Latin inscriptions.

Diptyque Carondelet : La Vierge à l'Enfant

Jan Gossaert, 1517

Half-length oil portrait of a young man with tousled brown hair in a dark double-breasted coat against a dim background.

Léon Riesener

Eugène Delacroix, 1835

Painting of a young girl with long wavy hair, black headband and dress, and white striped blouse against a dark background.

Portrait of a young girl (presumably a portrait of Magdalena Luther)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1537

Painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child beside young John the Baptist, with halos, roses and palms behind them.

Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist

Sandro Botticelli, 1470

Madonna and Christ child in clouds above Saint John the Baptist and Saint Stephen in a rocky landscape with angels.

Madonna in Glory with Sts. John the Baptist and Stephan

Michelangelo Anselmi, 1525

Painting of large old trees over a sunlit meadow with four small seated figures and a blue sky with clouds.

Trees in the Prater with seated figures

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1833

Painting of a seated man in red and brown and a veiled woman in white gazing upward against a blue sky and sea.

Saint Augustin et sa mère sainte Monique

Ary Scheffer, 1855

Two robed men walk on a winding road below a pink rocky cliff, with a distant town and hills under a blue sky.

Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus on the Way to the Calvary

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1475

Oil painting of Salome in a red gown receiving a severed head from an armored man beside an arch with a distant landscape.

Salome Receiving the Head of St. John the Baptist

Giuseppe Caletti

Painting of the Madonna and Child with two saints, a bearded elder and a nude young man, and three cherub heads above.

Madonna and Child with St. Peter and St. Sebastian

Giovanni Bellini, 1480

Full-length portrait of a gray-haired man in ermine coronation robes beside a jeweled crown, scepter, and gilded chair.

Charles X of France in coronation robes

François Gérard, 1825

Winged figure in a plumed helmet stands on a reclining man, holding a palm frond, under a cloudy sky.

Allégorie de la Victoire

Louis Le Nain, 1635

Oil painting of a young man with auburn hair and red cap holding a thistle sprig against a dark background.

Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle

Albrecht Dürer, 1493

Oil painting of a sunlit Middle Eastern street framed by an archway, with a donkey rider, a woman, and a fruit stall.

Une rue à Smyrne

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1800

Renaissance painting of a seated woman nursing an infant, with two children and a wooded landscape behind.

Charity

Andrea del Sarto, 1518

Risen Christ with a spade and halo meets a woman in blue reaching toward him, with angels and a tomb in a landscape.

Noli me tangere

Painting of the Virgin Mary and shepherds adoring the infant Jesus in a manger, with an angel in the sky above.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jusepe de Ribera, 1650

Painting of the Virgin Mary ascending into clouds with angels while apostles look up beside a stone tomb.

The Assumption of the Virgin Mary

François-André Vincent, 1771

Haloed elderly couple embrace at a gilded arched doorway as an angel with a scroll appears in the room beyond.

La Rencontre à la Porte Dorée (Anne et Joachim)

Wilhelm Ziegler, 1500

Painting of a château courtyard with a woman in red gown holding a letter and a kneeling man in a black cloak.

Vue d'une partie du château de Fontainebleau. Christine, reine de Suède, fait assassiner son grand écuyer Monaldeschi

Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy, 1824

Oval sketch of an allegory with a laurel-crowned seated woman, an eagle, cherubs and a glowing sun disk.

Esquisse pour le plafond du ministère des Finances : L'Empire couronnant les arts (Commande pour la décoration de l'a…

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry

Painting of two women and a child reaching for a lamb before a misty blue mountain landscape and a dark tree.

Sainte Anne Leonard

Leonardo da Vinci, 1503

Medieval painting of a martyrdom: executioners and soldiers around a bound nude body and a severed haloed head on gold ground

The Decapitation of Saint George

Bernat Martorell, 1430

Interior of a Gothic church with tall columns, hanging banners, and a tomb monument with a sculpted figure behind an iron rai

The Tomb of William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft (MNR 481)

Gerard Houckgeest, 1600

Crucifixion scene with Christ on the cross, the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene beneath a dark stormy sky.

Christ Crucified with the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene

Anthony van Dyck, 1617

Painting of a seated nude woman on a stone basin, with two bearded elders in a garden with an urn.

Suzanne et les vieillards

Giambattista Pittoni, 1720

Oil portrait of a young woman with dark hair, red ribbon, and white blouse with red bow, against a dark background.

Portrait de jeune femme

Louis Gustave Ricard, 1851

Half-length portrait of a young man with curly hair, blue eyes, lace ruff and white doublet against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Man

Alessandro Allori, 1565

Two saints in dark monastic and gold episcopal robes stand before a red damask background, one holding an open book.

Saint Benoît et saint Augustin

Carlo Braccesco, 1400

Gold-ground panel of a sleeping haloed man in pink robe as a winged angel descends toward him beside a bed.

Le Songe de saint Joseph

Master of the Osservanza, 1430

Painting of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ Child, Saint Longinus in armour, and Saint John holding a

Adoration of the Shepherds with Sts. Longinus and John

Giulio Romano, 1531

Portrait of a bearded man in black with lace collar and cuffs, hand beside an open book of plant drawings, blue curtain at le

Pierre Quthe, Apothecary

François Clouet, 1562

Painted bust of a veiled woman with a gold halo and patterned gilded background, with an inscription along the bottom.

Vierge en buste (dite véronique de la Vierge) et Sainte Face

Juan Rexach, 1450

Oil landscape at sunset: a seated figure on a boulder beside large trees, a goat, and distant buildings on a hill.

Sunset in Chevrier

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1848

Painting of a martyred female saint before an executioner, with an angel and putti descending above in an arched sky.

Le Martyre de sainte Agathe

Mariano Rossi, 1786

Painting of a haloed armored woman holding a banner beside an altar with a candle and crown, with a monk and kneeling page.

Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1854

Man in dark coat and peaked cap reads a small book at sunset above a hazy landscape with shrubs and cabbages.

Reading the Breviary, The Evening

Carl Spitzweg, 1845

Painting of Christ rising in a forest as three kneeling women in colorful robes reach toward him.

Christ Appears to the Three Marys

Laurent de La Hyre, 1625

Dark stormy scene of a rider on a rearing horse above a nude man with outstretched arms beside a torch, under lightning.

Empereur romain à cheval et son esclave frappé par la foudre

Théodore Chassériau, 1855