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Painting of soldiers with swords attacking mothers and infants in a classical colonnade, with dead children on the floor.

Le Massacre des Innocents

Nicolas Poussin, 1627

Reclining nude woman with long red hair on sea foam, waves and rocky coast behind her, in a gilded oval frame.

Naissance de Vénus

Henri Gervex, 1907

Sketch of a knight in armour on a dais with a crowned woman and bishop, facing a crowd of men on steps.

Esquisse pour l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Philippe Auguste avant de partir pour la Terre Sainte, confiant la tutelle…

Adolphe Yvon, 1862

Sketch of figures searching a snowy night street, one carrying a lantern, with two prone figures lying in the snow.

Esquisse pour le cabinet du préfet à l'Hôtel de Ville : La recherche des blessés durant le siège de Paris en 1870

Paul-Albert Baudouin, 1889

Oil sketch of soldiers marching past women and children by city walls, with a cannon and balloon in the right panel.

Esquisse pour le cabinet du Préfet à l'Hôtel de Ville : La sortie des troupes durant Le siège de Paris en 1870

Paul-Albert Baudouin, 1889

Painting of an elderly man in a bath surrounded by grieving women, attendants and soldiers beside classical columns.

La Mort de Sénèque

Jacques-Louis David, 1773

Oil painting of a luxurious interior where a dark-clad man stands by a curtain near a body lying on a red carpet.

Une victime des Borgia

Jean-Paul Laurens, 1875

Painting of a pale nude man lying on a dark ground, head resting on one arm, against a shadowy background.

Bara

Jean-Jacques Henner, 1882

Painting of a procession in a sunlit Venetian square before an ornate Gothic basilica, with red-robed figures and pink banner

Venise, procession de la Saint-Georges

Félix Ziem, 1870

Two arched panels: a haloed figure halts a brawling crowd amid ruins; a haloed cleric embraces a man in a red cloak in a chur

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Ambroise : saint Augustin faisant cesser un usage barbare selon lequel les pères, les fr…

Jules Eugène Lenepveu, 1875

Sketch of a haloed bishop holding sacred vessels before kneeling figures, soldiers and a fire in a rocky cave.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Ambroise : Saint Ambroise, évêque de Milan, livre les vases sacrés de son église pour ra…

Jules Eugène Lenepveu, 1873

Sketch of two Paris street scenes: people queuing at shops in snow, and a fallen man beside smoke near a church spire.

Esquisse pour le cabinet du Préfet à l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris : Le bombardement de la montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Le…

René Joseph Gilbert, 1889

Sketch of a bishop blocking an emperor and kneeling figures from a church entrance, with clergy, soldiers and onlookers.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Ambroise: Saint Ambroise interdit l'entrée du lieu saint à l'empereur Théodose, coupable…

Jules Eugène Lenepveu, 1873

Oil self-portrait of a bearded man with reddish hair in a dark coat, turned toward the viewer, in a gilt frame.

Autoportrait

Charles-Octave Blanchard, 1841

Painting of young girls in white dresses and veils holding candles in a procession through a leafy village setting.

Les communiantes à Courrières

Jules Breton, 1855

Seated woman in a pink dress with white collar holding a gray hat, against a dark green background.

Pauline Viardot

Painted sketch of workmen unveiling a white allegorical sculpture of winged women with a trumpet, framed by a garland.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement : Allégorie des Arts (plafond)

Émile Bin, 1880

Loose oil sketch of a cavalry battle on a plain, with riders in red and white and smoke over distant hills.

Scène de bataille

Philibert Rouvière, 1856

Woman in a pink dress reads sheet music while a man plays violin in a dim interior with dark drapery and a rug.

Le Duo

Cornelis Pietersz Bega, 1663

Oval portrait of a young blond boy in a dark jacket and white lace collar against a brown background, in a gilded frame.

Portrait d'enfant

Ary Scheffer, 1840

Painting of the Virgin and Child in an oval cartouche surrounded by a garland of roses, tulips, daffodils and ivy.

Vierge à l'enfant dans une couronne de fleurs

Daniël Seghers

Painting of orange-red rocks along a coast with green shrubs, turquoise sea and a small rock offshore under a pale sky.

Rochers dans la mer

Louis Valtat, 1902

Dark sketch of two nude men lifting a laurel-crowned, white-bearded seated figure before a crowd and a classical temple.

Ovation d'Homère, esquisse. Sujet antique

Théodore Géricault

Painting of plaster sculpture casts and nude figure studies arranged in a studio before framed figurative pictures.

Académie de sculpture

Louis Valtat, 1921

Sketch of two nude figures in a spring landscape with birds flying over blossoming trees, in a lunette-shaped canvas.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 1er : Le Printemps ou le matin de la vie

Albert Besnard, 1886

Sketch of a draped woman holding flowers beside a framed interior scene with a reclining man and seated woman by a window.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement : Le Printemps

Albert Besnard, 1880

Grey wash sketch of figures in a doorway inside a decorative border with a reclining woman and a theatrical mask.

Esquisse pour la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : L'Eté

Albert Besnard, 1880

Sketch of figures in a grey interior within a gilded frame, with a reclining nude holding grapes at the bottom.

Esquisse pour la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : L'Automne

Albert Besnard, 1880

Sketch of a veiled woman embracing a reclining figure, with a kneeling monk and fruit bowl, inside a gilded frame.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : L'Hiver

Albert Besnard, 1880

Sketch of allegorical figures under a sunburst, with a winged figure, a flag bearer, a reader and a rooster on a cloud.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : Le Triomphe de la Rép…

Albert Besnard, 1880

Sketch of a red-robed woman raising her arm beside oxen pulling a plow, with seated figures and a crescent moon above.

Esquisse pour la salle des mariages de la mairie du 19ème arrondissement de la Ville de Paris : Cérès - L'Abondance e…

Albert Besnard, 1880

Sketch of a Paris river scene at night with a rowing boat, crowds on the quays, cherubs, flags, and a 14 Juillet banner.

Esquisse pour la mairie du 4ème : le 14 juillet 1880

Albert Besnard, 1884