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Painting of the Annunciation: Mary seated with a book, kneeling angel offering a lily, dove descending above a green curtain.

Annunciation

Giorgio Vasari, 1563

Oval painting of Apollo chasing Daphne, who reaches for a laurel branch, with a river god and spilling urn below.

Apollo pursuing Daphne

René-Antoine Houasse, 1677

Panel painting of Saint Jerome seated with a lion at his side, a red hat nearby, a Gothic church and gold sky behind.

Saint Jérôme guérissant le lion

Ottaviano Nelli, 1415

Diamond-shaped heraldic coat of arms with hearts and eagles above an empty grey cartouche topped by a cherub head.

The armory of Adriana Perez., wife to burgomaster Nicolas Rockox of Antwerp

Peter Paul Rubens, 1613

Oval portrait of a young woman in a white dress holding pink roses, beside a dark fountain and a grey pitcher.

The broken pitcher

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1771

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a black cap and grey fur-trimmed cloak, arms folded, against a plain background.

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione

Baroque allegory of peace: gods and putti in a bright sky above a harbor with ships and crowds, in a gilded frame.

Les Bienfaits de la paix

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1760

Allegorical painting of a seated woman in red with winged figures sounding trumpets beside classical columns.

Allegory of the Regency of Anne Of Austria

Laurent de La Hyre, 1650

Painting of two mounted cavalry soldiers and a standing rifleman in a sunlit stone courtyard beside a old building.

Les Ordonnances

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, 1869

Oil painting of a barefoot man in red robes before a turbaned ruler on a throne, with soldiers and a scribe nearby.

Le Christ devant Pilate

Oil portrait of a man in a grey wig and red velvet cloak holding gloves, with a dark landscape behind him.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Nicolas de Largillière, 1700

Painting of a bearded man in red robes lifted skyward by two winged angels above a stone ledge with a sword and book.

The Ecstasy of St Paul

Nicolas Poussin, 1649

Seated woman in white gown and gold shawl beside a gilded chair, against a dark background, in a neoclassical portrait.

Portrait of Madame de Verninac

Jacques-Louis David, 1799

Painting of Pygmalion gesturing to a nude statue coming to life, with a cupid touching her hand in a classical setting.

Anne-Louis Girodet - Pygmalion & Galatée

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1819

Arched panel of the Presentation in the Temple: a priest in a mitre takes the infant Christ from the Virgin before an altar.

La présentation au temple

Ludovico Brea, 1475

Painting of a sleeping nude nymph beside a stone well, watched by a satyr leaning over it, with a pink curtain and landscape.

A Sleeping Nymph with a Satyr

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Oval portrait of an elderly woman in a white lace cap with a ribbon bow and a grey shawl, against a dark background.

Portrait de femme âgée

Henri-Pierre Danloux, 1700

Oil portrait of a young man in a dark coat and blue plaid waistcoat, holding a red book, against an ochre background.

Portrait of Adolphe Moreau

Thomas Couture, 1845

Painting of a seated nude young man with a staff and grapes, pointing skyward, in a wooded landscape with mountains and a lak

Saint John the Baptist, known as Bacchus

Francesco Melzi, 1510

Interior scene of a seated man playing a lute beside a standing woman in a white satin dress holding a book.

Interior with a man playing the lute and a woman singing

Gérard ter Borch, 1669

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white headscarf and red shawl against a dark brown background.

Marie Simonet, du village de Villemoyenne (Aisne)

Thomas Couture, 1836

Two women peek around a parted curtain, one with a red ribbon, beside a basket of pink flowers.

Curiosity

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1775

Interior scene with a seated woman writing, a woman playing lute, a standing man in black, and a spaniel on the floor.

A Young Woman Composing a Piece of Music

Gabriel Metsu, 1663

Two winged angels in blue and gold robes hold up a framed Latin inscription scroll against a pink landscape.

Two Angels Bearing a Scroll

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1475

Half-nude woman with long hair gazes upward beside a skull, hourglass, open books and a dead tree in a dark niche.

Penitent Magdalene

Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt, 1657

Gold-ground panel of a kneeling friar receiving rays from a winged seraph above, with predella scenes below.

St. Francis, standing on the frightful rocks of La Verna

Giotto, 1295

Madonna nursing the Christ Child in a rocky landscape, with young Saint John the Baptist holding a cross staff at left.

Madonna and Child with Saint Jean-Baptiste

Francesco Granacci, 1500

Half-length portrait of a woman in a black gown, gold chain and gilded headdress with red trim, against a dark background.

Portrait de femme (Jeanne Besse ?)

Jean Perréal, 1493

Painting of a woman in a white headscarf combing the hair of a sleeping child against a dark background.

L'épouilleuse

Michiel Sweerts, 1646

Painting of Saint Sebastian, nude and pierced by arrows, tied to a column beneath a carved arcade with a landscape behind.

Saint Sebastian

Pietro Perugino, 1490

Gold-ground altarpiece with the Holy Trinity and Crucifixion above three lower panels of saints and the Visitation.

retable de la Trinité

Bartolo di Fredi, 1397

Angel kneeling before the seated Virgin Mary in an arcaded loggia, with a gardener and mountain landscape beyond.

L'Annonciation / The Annunciation / Verkündigung

Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1815

Gilded arched panel of the Virgin and Child with saints and three musician angels, by Mariotto di Nardo.

La Vierge et l'Enfant avec quatre saints et trois anges musiciens

Mariotto di Nardo, 1385

Triptych with Crucifixion, enthroned Virgin and Child, Annunciation and saints against gold and floral backgrounds.

Cervara triptych

Gerard David, 1506

Half-length portrait of a clergyman in a black cassock with white lace cuffs, holding a folded document against a dark backgr

Portrait d'un ecclésiastique

Gregorio Guglielmi, 1750

Oil portrait of a young man with curly dark hair in a brown coat and black cravat against a dark background.

Mariano Giosi fils, réparateur au Louvre

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse, 1812

Painting of a nude woman beside a sea monster as a winged armored rider descends, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Two women in colorful North African dress stand at a carved wooden balcony with blue tiled columns and a bright blue sky.

Juives au balcon, Alger

Théodore Chassériau, 1849

Composite portrait head made of autumn fruits, grapes, pumpkin and grain sheaves, resting on a wooden basket against a dark b

Arcimboldo - Les saisons - L'automne

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1573

Painting of a seated woman in gold and blue robes gesturing in distress, surrounded by armored Roman soldiers and onlookers i

Lucrèce pleurant sa disgrâce

Andrea Casali, 1761

Painting of a seated woman in a white and red classical gown holding a hand mirror, with a bust, column and flower urn behind

Aspasia

Marie-Geneviève Bouliard, 1794

Painting of fallen armored warriors in a field, a praying woman, winged children, swallows and distant mountains within a gil

Le treizième signe avant-coureur de la fin du monde (

Jean Cousin, 1525

Painting of a gravedigger holding up a skull before two men, one in a dark cloak, under a cloudy sky on a hillside.

Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard

Eugène Delacroix, 1839

Triangular gilded panel showing a winged angel with a halo and blue patterned robe, holding a Latin greeting scroll.

The Angel of the Annunciation

Matteo Giovanetti, 1340

Devotional painting of a haloed woman in red and blue holding a staff, with a child, a kneeling woman, and a winged devil in

La Vierge du Secours

Giovanni Pagani, 1506

Portrait of a Princess

Pisanello, 1435

Painting of a red-clad knight embracing a young woman on horseback while a skeleton Death holds the bridle beside scattered b

The knight, the girl and Death

Hans Baldung Grien, 1498

Gilded Gothic panel showing Christ enthroned above angels and falling dark demons tumbling toward a dark mass below.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Master of the Rebel Angels, 1340

Painting of a man in a grey hat, red cape and pale green suit posing with one arm out in a landscape.

L'Indifférent

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1710

Painting of the sleeping infant Christ in a cradle, watched by a woman, an angel, and kneeling figures before a rocky landsca

Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jésus

Lubin Baugin, 1650

Woman in black with white ruff and cap seated beside a young girl, with an oval male portrait and flower vase on the wall.

Portrait of een weduwe met haar dochter

Cornelis Visscher, 1576

Pastoral landscape with tall trees, grazing sheep and goats, and figures including a woman in red on a dirt path.

Landscape with figures (Elkana and his Wives Hannah and Pennina?)

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1664

Crowd of Renaissance figures in turbans and colorful robes, with gloved hands and a golden cloak in the foreground.

Fifteen Characters

Luca Signorelli, 1490

Painting of a woman with sheet music and a man leaning on a tree, with two seated women in an outdoor setting.

The Song

Marguerite Gérard, 1785

Nude woman seated on a bench with cherubs, a satyr at right, and a cat at lower left, against a green curtain.

Jupiter and Antiope

Vincent Sellaer, 1525

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress with white lace collar, pearls and a feathered fan, with a coat of arms above.

Portrait of Anna Wake (1605-before 1669)

Anthony van Dyck, 1628

Painting of a bearded central figure blessing a crowd of children and richly dressed women against a dark blue sky.

Christ Blessing Children

master HB of the Griffon's Head, 1528

Brown-toned drawing of nude and winged figures falling from a radiant heaven into a writhing mass of damned bodies below.

La Chute des Réprouvés heaven and hell

Hendrick van Balen the Elder, 1632

Oil painting of a bearded man in a pink cap holding a wooden flute, gazing upward against a dark oval background.

Head of a flute player

Jacob Bunel, 1591

Painted Virgin Mary with a gold halo, head bowed, hand on chest, holding an open book against a gold background.

La Vierge de l'Annonciation

Taddeo di Bartolo, 1400

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ, flanked by four haloed angels in flower crowns against gold.

Madonna and Child with Four Angels

Master of the Nativity of Castello, 1450

Portrait of a young woman in a red gown with gold ribbons and a beaded necklace, set against a dark background.

La Belle Ferronnière

Leonardo da Vinci, 1495

Painting of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints with gold halos against a dark background.

Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Catherine of Alexandria

Pietro Perugino, 1495

Painting of a nude woman with crescent moon descending toward a sleeping nude youth, with a cupid and blue drapery.

Diana and Endymion

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1822

Altarpiece of St. Thomas Aquinas flanked by Aristotle and Plato, with Christ and the Evangelists above and a crowd of scholar

Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas

Benozzo Gozzoli, 1470

Half-length self-portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white collar, holding a palette and brushes.

Self-portrait with a Palette

Painting of a turbaned man in a red robe holding hands with a veiled woman on a Venetian balcony.

Othello and Desdemona in Venice

Théodore Chassériau, 1850

Painting of Christ handing keys to a kneeling Saint Peter on steps, with angels and cherubs in clouds above.

Le Christ donnant les clefs du Paradis à saint Pierre

Giambattista Pittoni, 1730

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in black with a white ruff, pointing to a small gold table clock.

Portrait d'homme désignant une horloge de table

Antonis Mor, 1565

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a lace bonnet with orange ribbons, pink satin dress and pearls, resting on a wooden desk.

Portrait de Geneviève Jacqueline Pécoul

Jacques-Louis David, 1784

Painting of a wide-eyed woman in a yellow gown holding a candle, with two figures in shadow behind her in a dark room.

The sleepwalking Lady Macbeth

Henry Fuseli, 1780

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in a dark fur-trimmed cloak and gold chain, holding a cane before red drapery.

Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541-1587)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1621

Gold-ground painting of the Crucifixion with angels, mourning women and a young man in a blue robe among rocks.

Le Calvaire

Lorenzo d'Alessandro, 1470

Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child on a throne with armored saints, a kneeling donor, and a garland of fruit.

Madonna della Vittoria

Andrea Mantegna, 1495

Two winged angels in pink and blue play a harp and a portable organ against a gold background.

Anges musiciens

Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, 1475

Portrait of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Justus van Gent, 1473

Painting of winged Cupid kissing the forehead of seated Psyche in a hilly landscape, with a butterfly in the sky.

Cupid and Psyche

François Gérard, 1798

Painted gilded crucifix with Christ crucified, mourning figures on each side, and an inscription above the head.

Crucifix by the Master of San Francesco, Louvre

Master of Saint Francis, 1250

Painted landscape with armored men, a spear, a white horse and a dark mule beneath a large tree, with distant hills.

Landscape with Absalom Wounded by Joab's Spear

Giovanni Battista Viola, 1600

Painting of an angel with a staff pointing to a kneeling young man holding a fish by a river under a dark, stormy sky.

Tobias and the Angel

Salvator Rosa, 1650

Renaissance painting of the Madonna and Child with St Elisabeth, infant St John, and two angels in a dark setting.

Madonna and Child with St Elisabeth, the Infant St John, and Two Angels

Andrea del Sarto, 1515

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in black dress with white ruff, cross on a blue sash, before green drapery.

Henry IV, King of France in Black Dress

Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1610

Painting of a young woman in white robe and blue mantle standing on a globe amid clouds and cherubs.

The Immaculate Conception

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1650

Oil portrait of a woman with dark skin in a white head wrap and blue drape, looking over her shoulder against a plain backgro

Portrait of Madeleine

Marie Guillemine Benoist, 1800

Painting of a slaughtered ox hanging from a wooden beam in a dark interior, with a faint figure in the background.

A Slaughtered Ox

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655

Portrait of a young woman in a white dress with a fur stole and brown gloves, with a river and church spire behind her.

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806

Cavalry fording a wide river under an oak tree, with a mounted commander in a plumed hat in the foreground and a distant town

The Crossing of the Rhine by the Army of Louis XIV, 1672

Joseph Parrocel, 1699

Painting of a reclining nude woman on a bed, a bearded man in blue armor, a winged Mercury above, and cherubs.

Mercury Orders Aeneas to Abandon Dido

Orazio Samacchini, 1650

Gilded panel painting of the Madonna and Child on a throne, surrounded by haloed angels playing instruments and offering flow

Madonna and Child Enthroned Surrounded by Angels

Gonzalo Pérez, 1450

Painting of a crowned woman in a red gown holding balance scales, leaning on a stone head under a green canopy.

Allegory of Justice

Francesco Fontebasso, 1745

Oval portrait of a young girl with wavy auburn hair and a bare shoulder, looking toward the viewer against a dark background.

young Girl

Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, 1800

Painting of a powerful waterfall below a hilltop village with a church tower, framed by a large tree under a blue sky.

Le Village et les cascades de Tivoli

Giovanni Battista Busiri, 1700

Full-length portrait of a woman in white gown and red shawl beside a waterfall in a dark wooded setting.

Portrait of Christine Boyer

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1800

Oil painting of a man in a brown coat leaning toward a seated woman in a gray dress beside a red cloth on grass.

The Faux Pas

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717

Painting of Christ on the cross surrounded by angels and kneeling Dominican saints beneath stormy grey clouds.

Christ on the Cross Adored by Eight Saints of the Dominican Order

Abraham van Diepenbeeck, 1652

Painting of the Virgin holding the Christ Child, with five angels behind them against a dark patterned background.

Madonna and Child with Five Angels

Sandro Botticelli