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Painting of a river city at dusk with a stone bridge, boats on the water, and Notre-Dame towers on the skyline.

Vue de l'île Saint-Louis et de l'île de la Cité, depuis la pointe de l'Arsenal

Oil painting of a river with boats, a domed hospital complex on the far bank, and figures on a grassy path under clouds.

La Salpêtrière, vue de la Rapée

Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, 1752

Painting of a Paris riverside square with a Hôtel de Ville, old houses, cathedral towers and boats on the river.

L'Hôtel de Ville et la place de Grève (actuelle place de l'Hôtel de Ville)

Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, 1752

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig and red cloak, pointing with one hand against a dark background.

Portrait d'un échevin

François de Troy, 1726

Painting of a priest receiving a boy with a booklet while a woman in a blue dress stands nearby in a wooden interior.

L'Abbé de Catéchisme recevant un enfant amené par sa sœur

Pierre-Louis Dumesnil, 1750

Oil sketch of haloed nuns and a monk gesturing around a red-draped table beside stone columns in a religious interior.

Sainte Scholastique obtenant du ciel une pluie accompagnée de tonnerre pour empêcher saint Benoît de la quitter (esqu…

Louis Galloche, 1706

Oval portrait of a man in a black top hat, dark coat and white cravat against a muted ochre background.

Portrait de Pierre Sériziat (1757-1847), beau-frère de David

Jacques-Louis David, 1795

Oil portrait of a man with light hair and blue eyes in a striped orange waistcoat and blue-striped cravat against a dark back

Portrait de Jean-Louis Laya (1761-1833), auteur dramatique

Louis Landry, 1795

Half-length portrait of a curly-haired man in a red cloak with gold embroidery, hand on chest, against dark green drapery.

Jean-Baptiste-Sauveur Gavaudan (1772-1840), chanteur

Henri-François Riesener, 1799

Seated man in dark coat and red waistcoat on a stone block, holding a red book, with hills and sky behind him.

Portrait de Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753-1824), conventionnel, membre du Directoire

Gérard van Spaendonck, 1797

Shadowy courtyard with a tiled roof, two figures in the foreground, and a sunlit archway opening onto a street beyond.

Cour d'une maison de roulage, rue Saint-Denis, dite cour Sainte-Catherine

Étienne Bouhot, 1815

Allegorical painting of royal figures receiving a crown amid soldiers, kneeling women, and scattered flowers.

Allégorie de l'entrée de Louis XVIII à Paris, le 3 mai 1814

Pierre-Nicolas Legrand, 1814

Oil portrait of a bearded man's head on a white cloth, with a forehead wound and an inscription on the block below.

Tête de Giuseppe Fieschi (1790-1836), après son exécution

François-Gabriel-Guillaume Lépaulle, 1836

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a black coat and white cravat, with a red, white and blue ribbon, against grey.

Portrait de Louis-Philippe Ier (1773-1850), roi des français

Pierre Roch Vigneron, 1831

Painting of a woman in a white dress and red drape playing a gilded harp before a landscape with trees and hills.

Allégorie de la Musique

Edmond Collignon, 1856

Oil sketch of a white-robed saint raising her arms toward a golden light in clouds, with a crowd and a bearded man below.

"Apothéose de sainte Geneviève", esquisse pour le tableau de l'église Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

Eugène Devéria, 1835

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a white turban and shirt, reclining on pillows, gazing to the side against a dark background

Portrait d'Auguste Hesse (1795-1869), peintre d'histoire, membre de l'Institut

Nicolas Auguste Galimard, 1870

Painting of a woman with laurel wreath holding a comic theatre mask, resting on books before a landscape.

Allégorie de la Comédie

Edmond Collignon, 1856

Night view of the Seine with a dark barge on the water, a spired church on the right, and silhouetted buildings under a cloud

Les bords de la Seine, près du palais de justice, effet de nuit

Charles-Emile Cuisin, 1870

Dusky painting of the Seine with a stone bridge, silhouetted city buildings, a tall mast and a dark boat in the foreground.

Le Pont des Arts

Charles-Emile Cuisin, 1870

Small oil sketch of two moored boats on dark river water beneath a muted blue-green sky.

Bateaux amarrés

Charles-Emile Cuisin, 1870

Painting of a Gothic church chapel with stained glass windows and worshippers in period dress seated in the foreground.

La chapelle de la Vierge à l'église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais

Prosper Lafaye, 1860

Oil sketch of Paris rooftops with pale walls, dark chimneys, and terracotta chimney pots under a grey-green sky.

Toits de Paris

Charles-Emile Cuisin, 1870

Crowd of uniformed men and onlookers in a Paris street at dusk, with a woman in a blue dress at center.

Le départ des mobiles, en juillet 1870

Alfred Dehodencq, 1879

Dark green hillside with a winding path and two windmills silhouetted against a pale yellow evening sky.

Vue de Montmartre, versant nord-ouest

Alexandre Defaux, 1881

Oil portrait of a woman in black mourning dress holding a red book, with a bust and barred window behind her.

Portrait de Marie-Antoinette au Temple

Millet, Anne Flore, marquise de Bréhan, 1793

Painting of a vaulted field hospital with a wounded soldier on a cot, attending surgeons, injured men, and a religious altar.

Une ambulance en 1814, pendant la campagne de France

Pierre Roch Vigneron, 1814

Painting of dead zouave soldiers in red trousers lying in a trench at night, with two standing figures on the embankment abov

Zouaves morts dans une tranchée. Scène de la guerre de 1870

Auguste André Lançon, 1870

Oval oil portrait of an older man with long curled wig and white collar, labeled Pierre Corneille, in a gilt frame.

Portrait de Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), poète dramatique

François Sicre, 1680

Painting of a stormy mountain landscape with cliffs, a hillside village, small figures, and a basket of fruit in the foregrou

Bergachtig landschap

Frederik van Valckenborch, 1605

Stage design painting of a classical palace with a scythe-bearing figure on a globe, gods on clouds and a dark sky.

Le Palais du Temps. Décor pour le prologue d'"Atys", tragédie lyrique de Lully

Jacques Vigoureux-Duplessis, 1708

Painting of a bound saint being beheaded by an executioner, with angels and a crowned figure above in dark clouds.

The Martyrdom of Saint Apronianus

Baltasar de Echave, 1612