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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 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 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

Kneeling woman in white drapery reaches upward toward a ladder in a dark interior lit by a glowing niche.

Le supplice d'une vestale

Henri-Pierre Danloux, 1790

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

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

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

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

Paysage

Théodore Rousseau, 1830

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

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

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

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

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

Charity

Andrea del Sarto, 1518

Ceiling painting of Cybele on a lion-drawn chariot with musicians and cherubs, set in gilded stucco.

Le Triomphe de Cybèle

Joseph Guichard, 1851

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, kneeling kings in richly colored robes, horses, a dog and co

Adoration of the Magi

Paolo Veronese, 2011

Gilded medieval panel of the Crucifixion with angels, a kneeling bishop, an executioner, and a brick tower.

The crucifixion and episodes from the life of Saint Denis

Jean Malouel, 1416

Helmeted Minerva with spear and shield stands at right beside draped Muses, instruments and books, and cherubs in the trees.

Minerva and the Muses

Jacques Stella, 1635

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

Crowded Roman square with soldiers seizing women amid white horses and classical buildings, a commander in red cloak watching

The abduction of the Sabines

Nicolas Poussin, 1637

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 a bearded king on a bed amid nude women, a struggling horse, gold objects and a burning palace behind.

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

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

Painting of a large elephant at a pool with a crouching tiger, under a golden sunset over a grassy plain.

Tigre et éléphant à la source, dit aussi Le désert indien

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1849

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

Painting of a sleeping nude youth in a dark forest as a pale luminous female figure approaches through mist and foliage.

Girodet Sleep of Endymion

Anne-Louis Girodet, 2010

Painting of the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist in a river, with angels holding a cloth and a dove above.

The Baptism of Christ

Emilio Savonanzi, 1630

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

Rubens painting of nude figures on clouds, including Ixion embracing a cloud, a peacock, a cupid, and a seated god.

Ixion, king of the Lapiths, deceived by Hera (Juno)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1615

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

Painting of a garden landscape with a pyramidal fountain, a broken Neptune statue in water, women on steps, and tall trees.

Paysage composé : la Rivière, dit aussi Fontaine pyramidale avec une statue de Neptune brisée

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1700

Painting of a thatched cottage with chickens, stacked planks and rocks in a sunlit farmyard beside trees.

Normandy thatched cottage, Old Trouville

Paul Huet, 1861

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

Interior scene of a doctor vaccinating an infant while family members and a servant watch, with green drapery and an open doo

The doctor Jean Louis Alibert (1768-1837) carrying out an anti-smallpox vaccination

Constant-Joseph Desbordes, 1820

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

Still life of peaches and plums with leaves on a pewter plate atop a carved stone pedestal against a dark background.

Peaches and prunes on a tin plate

Pierre Dupuis, 1650

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

Painting of the Virgin and Child receiving kneeling and standing kings with gifts, angels above, and soldiers with horses beh

Adoration of the Magi

Hendrick de Clerck, 1614

Painting of soldiers and a mounted officer at a smoky barricade, with a woman holding a child and a goat in the foreground.

The barrier of Clichy

Horace Vernet, 1820

Fresco lunette of God the Father blessing, flanked by two angels and cherubs among clouds, within a gilded border.

God the Father Blessing among the Angels

Half-length portrait of a bearded older man in a black beret and fur collar against a pale blue background.

Portrait of Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1463-1525)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532

Painting of a river valley with cliffs, trees, and pack horses on a path beside still water under a cloudy sky.

The borders of the river Cousin, near Avallon

Charles-François Daubigny, 1848

Five Famous Men of the Florentine Renaissance

Florentine School, 1500

Painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward a winged angel in the clouds, with a sleeping child and dense trees in a landsca

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel

Pier Francesco Mola, 1650

Painting of bathers in a sea cave with a sailing ship and rocky cliffs visible through the opening.

Bathers in a Cave

Joseph Vernet, 1787

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

Painting of men carrying a dead nude body in a white shroud while mourning women watch against a blue sky.

The Entombment of Christ

Titian, 1523

Still life with cherries on a plate, asparagus in a pewter bucket, a basket of plums and peaches, and leeks on a blue cloth.

Still life of fruits and vegetables

Samuel Hoffmann, 1600

Winged figure with raised torch and olive branch flying through dark clouds, in a round gilded frame.

Le Génie de la Paix

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1775

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

Four figures play cards at a table with gold coins; one man hides a card behind his back in a dark setting.

The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds

Georges de La Tour, 1635

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

Interior scene with card players on a checkered marble floor, a seated woman in red and a standing man, with a boy in blue at

Card players in a decorated interior

Pieter de Hooch, 1663

Painting of a stone bridge over a river with partly demolished houses, boats on the water, and people on the riverbank.

Demolition of the Houses on the Pont Notre-Dame in 1786

Hubert Robert, 1786

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

Venus on a gilded chariot led by Cupid toward a reclining figure in a dark wooded landscape, with putti above.

Venus Led by Cupid to the Dead Adonis

Jacopo Bertoia, 1550

Oil painting of reclining Venus with armored Mars, cupids, a dog and attendants before a smoky forge glow.

Mars and Venus in Vulcan's Forge

Luca Giordano, 1670

Reclining nude woman seen from behind on blue drapery, with white pillows, a pearl necklace and a gilded urn beside her.

Brown Odalisque

François Boucher, 1740

Full-length portrait of a man in gold-embroidered white satin and ermine-lined red mantle, holding a scepter, beside a throne

Napoleon I as Emperor

François Gérard, 1805

Portrait of an elderly woman in a white headscarf and shawl against a dark background, painted in warm earth tones.

The Old Italian Woman

Théodore Géricault, 1824

Oil painting of a ceremony in a dim church interior with richly dressed figures, banners, and spectators on a balcony.

Une cérémonie dans l'église de Delft

Eugène Isabey, 1847

Full-length portrait of a woman in a white gown leaning on a stone terrace above a river valley.

La Marquise Visconti

François Gérard, 1810

Rococo painting of a woman on a swing in a garden, with couples nearby, a lion fountain, and a guitar in the foreground.

L'Escarpolette

Louis Rolland Trinquesse, 1750

Misty landscape of trees over a lake, with a woman in red reaching toward a slender trunk beside figures in the grass.

Recollection of Mortefontaine

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1864

Painting of a banquet table with fruit and musicians playing lute, violin and flute, framed by columns and a landscape.

The Concert after the Meal

Ambrosius Benson, 1540

Oil portrait of a seated man with grey hair looking upward beside a desk with music sheets and books.

Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1791

Bishop in golden mitre gives alms to beggars on steps while a cherub descends with lilies above.

Saint Thomas of Villanova Giving Alms

Mateo Cerezo, 1660

Two children in period dress, a girl seated on a white goat with a fruit basket, a boy standing beside her under an oak tree.

The Count of Artois and his sister Clotilde

François-Hubert Drouais, 1763

Painting of a commanding rider in a bicorne hat on a white horse amid snowy battlefield with fallen soldiers and smoke.

Napoleon during the battle of Eylau

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1808

Painting of a woman in white headdress and red mantle reading a book beside a trellised garden wall.

St. Emerentia (in verso in grisaille: St. Clara)

Jan Provoost, 1510

Painting of reclining Venus on a bed with cupids working at a forge in a wooded landscape by Francesco Albani.

The Rest of Venus and Vulcan

Francesco Albani, 1621

Allegorical painting of three women and a putto with a palette and brushes against a dark background.

La Modestie présentant la Peinture à l'Académie

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1733

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: a kneeling king before the infant Christ, the Virgin, and attendants in a stable.

Adoration of the Magi

Peter Paul Rubens, 1617

Portrait of a man in a gold-embroidered blue coat with a crown and fleur-de-lis mantle beside him, red drape at right.

Louis XV

Manner of Louis-Michel van Loo, 1763

Painting of the Annunciation: Mary seated with lilies as an angel gestures, a dove and cherubs above.

Annunciation

Giulio Cesare Procaccini, 1620

Painting of two nude women bathing by a forest pool with hunting dogs, bows, arrows and dead game beside them.

Diana leaving her Bath

François Boucher, 1742

Painting of the Virgin Mary with two infants and an angel in a rocky grotto with plants and a distant pool.

Virgin of the Rocks

Leonardo da Vinci, 1483

Still life painting of a lute, sheet music, horn, candle and books on a red cloth against a dark background.

Allegory of Music, Arts and Science

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1765