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Oil painting of a seated robed woman on clouds surrounded by putti and kneeling figures, with gilded foliate border.

Allégorie. Le triomphe de la Religion

Sebastiano Conca

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

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

Painting of the Holy Family: Mary holds the infant Christ while Joseph kneels with a staff beside a view of a landscape.

Holy Family

Giorgione, 1500

Painting of Notre-Dame cathedral behind riverside houses, with boats and figures on the Seine in the foreground.

Le Cloître Notre-Dame, vu de l'île Saint Louis (quai d'Orléans)

Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, 1753

Sketch of a religious procession led by a cardinal in red, with an angel above and plague victims kneeling below.

Procession de saint Charles Borromée pendant la peste de Milan, esquisse pour la peinture murale de l'église Saint-Su…

Auguste Pichon, 1861

Oval-framed painting of a bearded elderly man raising his arm amid clouds, with putti and an open book below.

Gloire de saint Jérôme

Bon Boullogne, 1704

Painting of a classical interior where a red-robed saint points at a blinded man before a seated Roman ruler and crowd.

Saint Paul rend aveugle le faux prophète Barjésu. Esquisse (ou réduction) pour le "may" de Notre-Dame de 1650

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1650

Painted sketch of John the Baptist pouring water on Christ in a river, with haloed angels and onlookers beside a rocky landsc

Le baptême du Christ, esquisse pour le décor de la nef de l'église Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Hippolyte Flandrin, 1858

Two gold-ground panels: the Virgin nursing the Christ Child in blue, and St. Jerome in red writing at a desk beside a lion.

Madonna of Humility and St. Jerome

Benedetto di Bindo, 1400

Saint Lucy, a gilded tempera panel showing a standing female saint in green mantle and orange robe holding a dish with flame.

Saint Lucy

Benedetto di Bindo, 1410

Saint Francis in a grey hooded habit gazes upward in ecstasy beside a skull against a dark, luminous sky.

Ecstasy of Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Painting of a crowd with a crucifix and tricolour flags in a palace courtyard, soldiers and a mounted officer in background,

Les polytechniciens portant le crucifix sauvé de la chapelle des Tuileries, lors des émeutes du 24 février 1848

Hippolyte Lecomte, 1848

Painting of Christ on the cross under a dark sky, with a glowing halo, crown of thorns, and INRI sign above.

Christ en croix

Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1881

Painting of the crucified Christ, head bowed, arms outstretched, pale body against a dark background.

Christ en croix

Jean-Jacques Henner, 1892

Sketch with two registers: an arched scene of a reclining figure and a child in red, and a preacher with haloed crowd below.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint-Séverin : L'Enfance de Saint François de Sales - Saint François de Sales prêchant les hé…

Victor-Louis Mottez, 1852

Virgin in red mantle holds infant Christ beside a spring, with donkey grazing and a wide river landscape behind.

Virgin and Child Resting during the Flight into Egypt

Joachim Patinir

Painting of the Virgin Mary in blue holding the Christ Child, with angels playing lutes against a gold background.

Madonna and Child

Painting of Saints Jerome and John the Baptist in red and pink robes against a gold background, with a lion at lower left.

Saints Jerome and John the Baptist

Gold-ground panel of the Lamentation: mourners surround the dead Christ on a white cloth beside a cross and ladder.

The Lamentation

Andrea di Bartolo, 1400

Painting of a ruined Gothic church interior with a torn roof, fallen stone rubble and overturned chairs on the floor.

Intérieur de l'église Saint-Gervais, après le bombardement du Vendredi saint, 29 mars 1918

Alice Mallaivre, 1918

Four men at a dining table with bread and a clay pitcher, two bearded elders in animated conversation, dark background.

The Disobedient Prophet

Lambert Jacobsz, 1620

Painting of the dead Christ supported by two angels on a marble tomb, with a saint, a lion and a kneeling friar in a rocky la

The Dead Christ

Ercole de' Roberti, 1490

Painting of Moses holding stone tablets beside a twisted tree while kneeling figures raise their hands in a rocky landscape.

Moses bringt das Gesetz vom Berge Sinai

Paul Troger, 1750

Seated bearded prophet Isaiah in red robe and teal mantle, holding a flowering staff, within a gold hexagonal panel.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint François Xavier : Isaïe

Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1875

Painted study of the prophet Ezekiel, a bearded man in red and green robes with a staff, against blue, in a gold hexagon.

Esquisse pour l'église Saint François Xavier : Ezéchiel

Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1875

Painted sketch of the prophet Jeremiah, a bearded old man in red cloak and grey robe, seated against blue, within a gold hexa

Esquisse pour l'église Saint François Xavier : Jérémie

Jules-Élie Delaunay, 1875

Painting of a pale nude male body laid out horizontally on a white cloth against a dark background.

Christ au tombeau

Jean-Jacques Henner, 1899

Painting of a haloed saint on a storm-tossed ship pointing upward while terrified sailors and a mother with child cling to th

Saint Thomas d'Aquin prêchant la confiance en Dieu pendant la tempête

Ary Scheffer, 1823

Christ seated in a columned interior speaks with Martha while Mary sits at his feet, with servants in the background.

Le Christ chez Marthe et Marie ; esquisse ou réduction pour le "may" de Notre-Dame de 1704

Claude Simpol, 1704

Half-length portrait of an elderly bearded man in black skullcap and dark cassock, labelled Saint Vincent de Paul.

Portrait de saint Vincent de Paul (1581-1660)

Simon François, 1660

Small 1783 painting of a striped hot air balloon rising over a crowd in a tree-lined garden with statues.

Ascension d'un aérostat, aux Tuileries (le 27 août 1783 ?)

Ecole française, 1783