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Oil painting of a street charlatan on a platform with a trumpeter and a crowd of 18th-century townspeople and children.

Le Charlatan, vers 1760

Nicolas-Henri Jeaurat de Bertry, 1760

Painting of a Paris street outside a royal lottery office, with an elderly man checking a ticket among townspeople.

Bureau de la loterie royale sous la Restauration

Ecole française, 1820

Oval portrait of an elderly man in a black tricorn hat and red jacket with gold braid, against a brown background.

Le Marchand de vulnéraire, vers 1820

Ecole française, 1820

Small chimney sweeps drinking from a street pump in a French city square, with a domed church and statue behind them.

Petits ramoneurs se désaltérant à l'eau d'une pompe, vers 1830

Ecole française, 1830

Painting of soldiers drinking outside a tobacco shop on a cobbled street, with a woman at a window above.

Marchand de vin, faubourg Saint-Honoré

Ecole française, 1820

Oil portrait of a man with light tousled hair in a blue coat and white shirt, gazing upward against a brown background.

Portrait de Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), homme politique et auteur dramatique

Jacques-Louis David, 1795

Sketch of God the Father on a throne with Christ and the Virgin Mary on clouds beneath a ring of flames.

Le Père éternel, le Christ et la Vierge ; esquisse pour la peinture murale de la demi-coupole de l'église Saint-Denis…

Abel de Pujol, 1838

Portrait of a man in a black cloak and red braided waistcoat against a stormy landscape sky.

Nicolas René Dufriche-Desgenettes (1762-1837), médecin en chef de l'armée d'Orient

Ecole française, 1798

Painted allegory of Liberty above rubble with a crowd and mounted soldiers, in warm ochre tones.

Allégorie de la Liberté sur les ruines de la Bastille

Ecole française, 1789

Painting of a domed building seen through a shadowed stone archway, with small figures resting in the sunlit foreground.

Le collège des Quatres-Nations, vu de l'entrée de la cour carrée du Louvre

Pierre-Antoine Demachy, 1780

Oval portrait of a seated officer in blue uniform with red collar and tricorn hat, beside a desk with quill and inkwell.

Portrait d'un officier de la garde nationale à l'époque révolutionnaire

Ecole française, 1789

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a black robe with white collar, resting his hand on a scroll beside a pale column.

Le Frère François Romain (1646-1735)

Jean André, 1690

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and black bow tie against a dim brown background.

Portrait d'Eugène Laval (1818-1896), architecte

Eugène Delacroix, 1860

Painting of a snowy city street lined with bare trees, figures walking, and grey factory buildings under an overcast sky.

Neige (La poterne de la plaine), 1926

Louis Robert Antral, 1926

Sunlit Paris courtyard with stone walls, sloping shed roof, tall buildings behind and a small figure at right.

Ancien Hôtel-Dieu, cour des cuisines

Charles-Alexis Apoil, 1882

Painting of a shadowed old courtyard with stone buildings, dormer windows, hanging laundry and a small figure under a grey sk

Ancien Hôtel-Dieu, cour de Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre

Charles-Alexis Apoil, 1882

Night painting of a theatre on fire, with orange smoke and sparks rising above glowing windows and silhouetted buildings.

L'incendie du théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique le 13 juillet 1827

Antoine Boisselier, 1827

Oil painting of a wet, curving Paris street with old timber and stone buildings under an overcast sky.

La Bièvre, rue de Valence

Germain Eugène Bonneton, 1900

Painting of an angel pointing to a hilltop monastery as monks in dark robes listen beneath trees beside a river.

Scène de la vie de saint Benoît : l'ange désignant à saint Benoît l'emplacement du monastère du mont Cassin

Philippe de Champaigne, 1656

Oil portrait of a middle-aged man with a white mustache in a dark suit against a reddish-brown background.

Portrait de Georges Cain (1853-1919), peintre et littérateur

Léon Bonnat, 1909

Oil portrait of a woman in a blue hat and striped dress holding a tambourine against a dark background.

Portrait d'une danseuse

Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1789

Painting of a smiling bearded man in a straw hat at a desk with white cats, an inkwell, and a woman by a window.

Portrait d'Alexandre Schanne (1823-1887), modèle du "Schaunard" de "La Vie de Bohème" de Murger

Léon Dehaisne, 1880

Oil portrait of a woman in a black off-shoulder gown leaning on a red gilded chair, with a crest in the upper left.

Portrait de la duchesse de Valençay, comtesse de Talleyrand-Périgord

Claude-Marie Dubufe, 1838

Oil portrait of a woman with curled hair, white ruffled blouse and dark choker, against a grey-brown background.

Portrait de Madame Corsse

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1805

Bust portrait of an elderly man with white hair in an olive coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Corsse (1760-1815), acteur

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1805

Oil portrait of a young man in a dark blue military uniform with gold epaulettes and two medals, against a dark background.

Portrait dit du capitaine Jules Raulin

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1810

Misty sea with a breaking white wave and a tall cross rising from the water under a mauve sky.

Croix et vague, Bretagne

Henry Brokman, 1905

Painting of a laurel-crowned woman in white and blue beside burning armor, with a chained man and a warrior in clouds.

La Paix

François Boucher, 1750

Painting of scaffolding around a sculpture of a female figure in a fountain basin at Place de la Nation, Paris, 1899.

Mise en place du monument du "Triomphe de la République" de Jules Dalou, place de la Nation, en 1899

Victor Marec, 1899

Painting of a dressing room with a seated man at a vanity surrounded by admiring elegantly dressed women and a man in evening

"Les admiratrices" (Lucien Guitry dans sa loge)

Albert Guillaume, 1922

Crowded Parisian square with tricolour flags, a band, soldiers and a statue, painted in a festive 19th-century style.

14 Juillet 1880, inauguration du monument à la République

Alfred Philippe Roll, 1882

Genre scene of a woman with a child and basket speaking at a village doorway, with a girl and figures nearby.

La diseuse de bonne aventure

Jan Steen, 1653