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Oval portrait of a woman in a white ruffled bonnet and black dress with a frilled collar, in a gilded laurel frame.

Portrait de Madame Gohier

Jacques-Augustin Pajou, 1805

Painting of the Pont-Neuf and Samaritaine pump house over the Seine in Paris, with boats and figures on the quay.

La Pompe de la Samaritaine, le Pont-Neuf et l'île de la Cité, le quai de Conti, vus du quai du Louvre

Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, 1771

Painting of a crowded village scene with riders and pedestrians before a church with twin spires and a loaded cart.

Pillage d'une église pendant la Révolution

Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1793

Workmen demolish a Gothic archway and classical columns amid rubble and scattered stone under a pale blue sky.

L'Eglise des Feuillants en démolition

Hubert Robert, 1804

Oval landscape painting in an octagonal frame showing trees, a sky with clouds, walking figures and grazing sheep.

Paysage peint sur une assiette

Hubert Robert, 1794

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and dark shawl against an olive background.

Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) au Temple

Prieur, 1793

Sketch of winged allegorical figures flanking a blank white arch, with a dark-robed seated man and a kneeling soldier.

Esquisse pour la peinture du monument aux morts de la guerre de 1870 au lycée Chaptal

Gabriel Ferrier, 1879

Misty painting of dark rocky islands rising from calm water under a pale glowing sky.

Insulae syrenum, étude

Henry Brokman, 1902

Yamila au turban

Marius Avy, 1907

Ink scroll of a smiling child in red riding a gray water buffalo beside a bare tree.

Buffle et enfant

Wen Fu, 1799

Oil painting of three children at a table, one painting in a sketchbook beside a watercolor palette and glass of water.

Portraits intimes

Alfred Dehodencq, 1872

Red ink painting of the bearded guardian Zhong Kui in a patterned robe, holding a sword, with calligraphy at upper left.

Zhong Kui

Ink landscape scroll with misty mountains, bamboo grove, riverside pavilion, small boat and bridge.

Paysage

Xi Dai, 1846

Ink painting on silk of a fish rising among aquatic plants, with smaller fish below and a red seal in the corner.

Album

Pale hazy mountains above a calm blue sea with a small rocky island on the right, painted on unframed canvas.

Capri

Henry Brokman, 1912

Half-round panel of Paris skyline with the Panthéon dome and church towers, labelled Siège de Paris 1870-1871.

Vue de Paris avec le Panthéon

François-Frédéric Grobon, 1870

Hanging scroll of a robed woman holding a green vessel above swirling clouds, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Magu

Brown ink and wash sketch of a crowded Last Judgment scene with robed figures, trumpeters and a glowing arch.

Le Jugement Universel, esquisse

Auguste Barthélémy Glaize

Dark painted sketch of struggling figures in a shadowy battle scene, with a raised arm above the crowd.

Allégorie politique avec portrait de Victor Hugo [ou Scène de combat]

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1866

Painted portrait of an elderly white-bearded man in a dark suit and white cravat against a black background.

Portrait de Victor Hugo

Aimé Nicolas Morot, 1885

Painting of the Arc de Triomphe draped in black, with a crowd and tricolor flags for Victor Hugo's funeral.

Funérailles de Victor Hugo, 31 mai et 1er juin 1885

Gabriel Edouard Thurner, 1885

Full-length oil portrait of a man in a black coat and white collar, standing against a dark background.

Victor Hugo

Louis Boulanger, 1839

Painting of a glowing ghostly woman holding a flower before a fireplace while a dark kneeling figure reaches toward her.

Alix apparaissant au masque

Tony Robert-Fleury, 1891

Dusk view of the Arc de Triomphe draped in black with mourning flags, a crowd and trees in the dark foreground.

Funérailles de Victor Hugo, 31 mai et 1er juin 1885

Painting of a garden with bare trees, autumn leaves, a stone table and bench, and a shuttered building behind.

Maison de Victor Hugo, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs

Paul Madeline, 1905

Painting of the Pantheon in Paris draped in black, with piles of funeral wreaths and a crowd of mourners in the street.

Les Funérailles de Victor Hugo, 31 mai et 1er juin 1885

Paul Sinibaldi, 1885

Painting of a nude woman with reddish hair leaning on a crescent shape against a dark brown background.

Sara la baigneuse

Jean-Jacques Henner, 1903

Painting of a pale standing nude woman beside a palm tree by the sea, with a faint background figure and animal.

Le sacre de la femme

Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry, 1883

Painting of a pensive woman with her hand on her cheek, emerging from dark brown shadows, by Eugène Carrière.

Fantine abandonnée

Eugène Carrière, 1903

Two women in a golden wheat field gather blue cornflowers under a pink evening sky, painted in 1882.

Les Bleuets

Charles Zacharie Landelle, 1882

Night scene of a capsized boat and figures with a lantern on a dark shore, painted in dramatic light and shadow.

Le Naufrage

Georges Rochegrosse, 1886

Sketch of a seated woman in an ornate gown with jewelry, a white dog at her feet, in a dark interior.

La Duchesse Josiane

Georges Rochegrosse, 1886