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Loose painted portrait of a young woman with curly brown hair and blue eyes against a green background.

La petite mendiante rousse

Émile Deroy, 1843

Painting of the Virgin Mary rising among angels while apostles below gaze upward toward her.

L'Assomption

Ludovico Brea, 1475

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by six winged angels in blue, pink and gold robes.

The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels

Virgin and Child flanked by two crowned saints in red and dark robes, reading books, with a village landscape behind.

La Vierge et l'Enfant entre sainte Catherine et sainte Barbe

Ambrosius Benson, 1530

Painting of two haloed saints, a bishop with a crozier and a bearded man with a staff and book, on gold ground.

Saint Pétrone et saint Jacques

Antonio Vivarini, 1463

Oil painting of a seated beggar in a wide hat counting coins, watched by children in a stone archway setting.

Mendiant comptant sa recette

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1833

Painting of a penitent woman with long blonde hair beside a skull, crucifix, open book and candle in a rocky cave.

Sainte Madeleine pénitente, par Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani, 1663

Standing saint in blue mantle holding a book, with a white lamb at her feet and a rocky landscape behind.

Sainte Agnès

Maître du retable d'Avila, 1510

Painting of a massacre on a shore with fallen figures, a mounted rider in a pink turban, and a burning town behind.

The Massacre at Chios

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Oil portrait of a young woman in a black dress with gold chain and lace cuffs, against green drapery.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Peter Paul Rubens, 1620

Painting of Christ with a halo on a rock, raising his hand as a winged, nude tempter reaches toward him against a blue sky.

La tentation du Christ

Ary Scheffer, 1850

Oil painting of two children in pink and white period costume with a small dog in a dark woodland setting.

Enfants et chiens

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1845

Bearded elderly man in blue and ochre robes kneels in prayer, gazing upward, with keys at his side and a dark landscape behin

St. Peter Praying

Pier Francesco Mola, 1650

Oil portrait of a woman in black velvet with a feathered hat, flanked by two boys in military uniforms on a terrace.

Queen Marie-Amélie with her Children

Louis Hersent, 1835

Painting of a seated young woman in blue with a jewelry box, an elderly woman pointing, and a satyr in the background.

A Useless Moral Lesson

Godfried Schalcken, 1680

Seated elderly man in brown coat with gold buttons and white powdered hair, resting arm on red chair against dark background.

Portrait de Charles-Pierre Pecoul

Jacques-Louis David, 1784

Full-length portrait of a seated man in a red ermine-trimmed robe, laurel wreath and gold scepter on an ornate throne.

Napoleon on his Imperial throne

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806

Oval oil portrait of a uniformed naval officer with gold epaulettes and a brass telescope against a stormy sea.

Portrait of admiral

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress with red sash and headband, leaning on a blue-upholstered chair against a grey

Portrait of the Marquise d'Orvilliers

Jacques-Louis David, 1790

Painting of Saint Stephen being stoned by a crowd while Christ and angels with a crown and palm appear above.

La Lapidation de saint Étienne by Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun, 1651

Saint Luke painting at an easel as the Virgin and Christ Child appear above him, surrounded by cherubs.

Saint Lucas painting the Virgin

Luca Giordano, 1650

Gold-ground panel of Christ's body being taken down from the cross by mourners, with a man removing a nail with pincers.

Descent from the Cross

Pietro da Rimini, 1320

Portrait of a woman in a red velvet dress and jewelled cap, seated before an arched loggia with a landscape view.

Portrait de Jeanne d'Aragon

Elderly bearded man in red cloth holds a stone, with a skull and book beside him, against a dark background.

Saint Jérôme

Jusepe de Ribera, 1633

Virgin and Child enthroned in glory between Saint Ambrose and Saint Francis, with kneeling monk, angels, and river landscape.

La Vierge en gloire entre saint François et saint Ambroise

Bartolommeo Bononi, 1507

Oil painting of a market scene under a tree with vendors, vegetables, a rooster, a dog, and a moored boat by brick houses.

The Vegetable Market in Amsterdam

Gabriel Metsu, 1660

Panel painting of two saints on gold ground: a robed man with a red hat and a bearded man carrying a child with a staff.

Homme bon et saint Christophe

Pietro di Giovanni Lianori, 1400

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin seated with the Christ Child reaching for a pink rose, under a Gothic canopy.

Madonna and Child

Lorenzo Veneziano, 1372

Painting of Ceres in a shell niche holding a golden cornucopia of wheat, flanked by imitation marble panels.

Ceres

Gilded medieval panel of a grieving hooded figure in dark blue, hand to face, before red rocks and a gold halo.

La Vierge de douleur

Pere Lembrí, 1400

Painting of Christ with a halo and staff meeting a kneeling woman with an ointment jar, angels seated on rocks nearby.

Noli me tangere

Francesco Albani, 1620

Painting of the Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and infant St. John in a wooded landscape with blue robes.

Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the infant St. John

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