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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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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