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Henri Rousseau

On May 16, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, may 21

Henri Rousseau, French painter, May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910

Myself: Portrait-Landscape, 1890
Oil on canvas, 57.5 × 76.0 in
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic

Carnival Evening, 1886
Oil on canvas, 44.9 × 59.1 in
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

Eiffel Tower, 1898
Oil on canvas, 63.8 × 51.2 in
The Phillips Collection, DC

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, 1905
Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 118.1 in
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland

Portrait of Monsieur X (Pierre Loti), c 1906
Oil on canvas, 25.8 × 21.3 in
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Flamingoes, 1907
Oil on canvas, 44.9 × 63.8 in
Private collection

The Football Players, 1908
Oil on canvas, 39.4 × 31.9 in
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY

In a Tropical Forest: Struggle Between Tiger and Bull, 1908
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 63.8 in
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

View of the Bridge at Sèvres, 1908
Oil on canvas, 23.6 × 31.9 in
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

The Muse Inspiring the Poet, 1909
Oil on canvas, 51.2 × 38.2 in
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Bouquet of Flowers, c 1910
Oil on canvas, 31.9 × 24.0 in
Tate, London, United Kingdom

Jaguar Attacking a Horse, 1910
Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 35.4 in
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Jean-Léon Gérôme

On May 10, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, may 11

Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter, May 11, 1824 – January 10, 1904

Jean-Léon Gérôme, photograph by Nadar, c 1910

Young Greeks Attending a Cock Fight, 1846

Oil on canvas, 56.2 x 80.3 in //

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait of Armand Gérôme, 1848

Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 17.2 in //

National Gallery of Art, London

Portrait of a Woman, 1848

Oil on canvas, 36.4 x 29 in //

Art Institute of Chicago

Recreation in a Russian Camp, 1855

Oil on canvas, 23.2 x 39.7 in //

Private collection

Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, 1857

Oil on panel, 24.4 x 41.7 in //

Private collection

Thumbs Down, 1872

Oil on canvas, 37.9 x 58.7 in //

Phoenix Art Museum

Diogenes, 1860

Oil on canvas, 29.3 x 39.7 in //

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Phryne Before the Areopagus, 1861

Oil on canvas, 31.4 × 50.3 in //

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jerusalem,1867

Oil on canvas, 32 × 56.9 in //

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Éminence Grise, 1873

Oil on canvas, 27 x 39.7 in //

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Pain, 1891

Bronze

Vesoul, France

Truth Emerging from Her Well, 1896

Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 28.3 in //

Musée Anne de Beaujeu, Moulins, France

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

On May 7, 2026 - 19th Century, French, may 11

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter, May 11, 1827 – October 12, 1875

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1875

Louis Maximilien Beauvois, Notary in Valenciennes, 1862

Bronze

Portrait of the Artist Pierre-François-Eugène Giraud, 1862

Bronze on red marble base, 19 1/4 x 11 13/16 x 10 in //

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Smoker, 1863

Detroit Institute of Arts

Ugolino and His Sons, 1865 – 67

Marble, 77 3/4 × 59 × 43 1/2 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Triumph of Flora, 1866

South façade of the Pavillon de Flore, Louvre, Paris

Bust of a Black Woman, 1868

Bronze, 25 in //

National Museum in Warsaw

The Dance, 1869

Palais Garnier/Paris Opera

Chinese Man, 1872

Bronze

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Laughing Woman, 1873

Marble

Museum of Fine Arts, Str

Napoleon III, 1873

Plaster

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Bust of Charles Gounod, 1873

Fountain of the Four Parts of the World, 1874

Luxembourg Gardens, Paris

Bust of Alexandre Dumas the Younger, 1874

Terracotta cast

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

On April 12, 2026 - 18th Century, april 14, French

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French artist, April 14, 1724 – February 14, 1780

Putti, 1770

Graphite and pencil study sketch

Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris.

Benjamin Franklin, 1777

Oil paint, 6 3/8 x 5 5/16 in //

White House Historical Association, Washington DC

Fête in the Colisée, 1772

Black chalk, ink, watercolor and gouache on paper, 6.6 x 8.8 in

Wallace Collection, London

Lully's Opera "Armide" Performed at the Palais-Royal, 1761

Pen, watercolor and gouache over graphite pencil

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Vignettes for the "Historical, Topographical and Physical Tablets of Burgundy", 1755

Etching

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Tuileries, 1760

Engraving

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Allegory of the Death of Voltaire, 1778 - 1780

Graphite, pen in gray and brush in watercolor

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The Newsreaders, 1752

Etching, 3 7/8 x 5 5/8 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michel-Jean Sedaine, Writing at His Desk, 1749

Black chalk, 8.3 x 9.8 in //

Private collection

Allegory of the Marriages Made by the City of Paris at the Birth of the Duke of Burgundy, 1752

Etching, 6 9/16 x 4 13/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Conference of Lawyers, 1776

Etching, 6 15/16 x 4 11/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

An Assembly at the Concert

Oil on paper laid on card, 3⅞ x 5⅛ in //

Private collection

Eva Gonzàles

On April 10, 2026 - 19th Century, april 19, French

Eva Gonzàles, French painter, April 19, 1849 – May 6, 1883

Eva Gonzàles, c 1870

Portrait of Eva Gonzalés in Manet's Studio, 1870

Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 52.5 in

National Gallery, London

Lady with a Fan, c 1869 - 1870

Pastel on paper affixed to board, 16.7 x 10.6 in

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Full-length Mirror, c 1869 - 1870

Oil on canvas, 15.3 x 10.4 in //

National Gallery, London

Girl with Cherries, 1870

Oil on canvas, 22.1 x 18.6 in //

Art Institute of Chicago

Bouquet, c 1871 - 1872

Oil on canvas, 13.7 x 9.8 in //

Private collection

The Loge at the Théatre des Italiens, c 1874

Oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Woman in White, 1874

Pastel, 36.9 x 29.2 in

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

In the Wheatfield, Dieppe, c 1875 - 1876

Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 21.2 in //

Private collection

The Alcove, c 1875 - 1878

Oil on canvas, 18.3 × 15.1 in //

Private collection

Nounou with a Child, 1877 - 1878

Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 32 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Morning Awakening, 1877

Oil on canvas, 31.8 X 39.3 in //

Kunsthalle Bremen

Bouquet of Violets, c 1877 - 1878

Pastel, 9.4 x 7.3 in //

Private collection

Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales in Profile, before 1883

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Théodore Rousseau

On April 2, 2026 - 19th Century, French

Théodore Rousseau, French painter, April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867

Photo of Theodore Rousseau by Nadar, 1855 - 1859

The Getty Center, Los Angeles

Fishing Village, 1831 //

Oil on canvas

Unknown location

The Plain, Seen From the Heights of Meudon, 1831 - 1835

Watercolor and oil paint on wove paper, 14.6 x 10.7 in //

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Salève Cliffs Near Geneva, 1834

Oil on paper laid down on panel, 7.3 x 13.8 in //

Unknown location

Swamp in the Landes, after 1844

Oil on panel, 16.4 x 22.3 in //

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

The Pool, 1842 - 1843

Oil on canvas, 16.2 x 24.9 in //

Museum of Fine Arts of Reims, France

Hoarfrost, 1845

Oil on canvas, 25 x 38.5 in //

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Meadow Bordered by Trees, c 1845

Oil on panel, 16.3 x 24.3 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

View of the Plain of Montmartre, c 1848

Oil on panel, 23.4 x 28.3 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

The Oaks of Apremont, 1850 - 1852

Oil on canvas, 25 x 39.1 in //

Louvre Museum, Paris

The Colliers´Hut in the Forest of Fontainebleau, c 1855

Oil on canvas, 13.4 x 16.5 in //

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Study of an Oak Tree, 1857 - 1867

Black and white chalk on laid paper, 14.7 x 10.7 in //

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Great Oaks of Old Bas-Bréau, 1864

Oil on canvas, 46 x 35.5 in //

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

On March 30, 2026 - 18th Century, 19th Century, april 4, French

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter and draughtsman, April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823

Self-Portrait, c 1788 - 1790

Pen and brown ink on white paper, 5.9 x 4.9 in //

Louvre Museum, Paris

Standing Man

Pierre noire, white chalk on paper

Male Nude Study, unknown date

Charcoal heightened with white chalk on blue paper, 17 13/16 x 9 13/16 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Minerva Leading the Genius of Arts to Immortality, c 1806

Black and white chalk on paper, 16.7 x 11.2 in //

Private collection

Male Academic Nude

Study of a Nude Woman, Seated Looking to the Right, 1805

Black and white chalk, 24 5/16 x 17 3/16 in //

Cleveland Museum of Art

Drawing of Female Nude

Charcoal and chalk on paper

Venus, c 1810 - 1812

Black chalk with white chalk heightening on blue-gray paper, 24 x 17 13/16 in //

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Allegory of Music, unknown date

Phrosine and Mélodore

Book illustration

Logo of the Ministry of General Police, c 1800

Gallica Digital Library, National Library of France

The Fate of Artists, after 1786

Etching, 6.7 x 8.7 in //

Paul and Virginie, 1806

Book illustration

Albert Marquet

On March 25, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, march 27

Albert Marquet, French painter, March 27, 1875 - June 14, 1947

The Handcart, 1904

Chinese ink drawing on paper, 3.1 x 4.7 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeau

Self-Portrait, 1904

Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 14.9 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Blonde Woman on a Spanish Shawl Background, 1919

Oil on canvas, 38.7 × 38.7 in //

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Nude on a Divan, 1912

Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 31.8 in //

Lille Museum of Modern Art, France

Sergeant of the Colonial Regiment, 1906 - 1907

Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 27.9 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fécamp/The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, 1906

Oil on canvas, 25.3 x 31.4 in //

Private collection

Nude Against the Light, 1909

Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Portrait of Marcelle Marquet, 1931

Oil on canvas, 24 x 19.6 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Landscape, Mediterranean Bay, View of Agay, c 1905

Oil on canvas, 25.3 x 31.7 in //

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Port of Marseilles, 1916

Oil on canvas, 25.59 x 31.88 in //

Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan

Vesuvius, c 1909

Oil on canvas, 24 x 31.4 in //

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Port of Algiers With Haze, 1943

Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 31.9 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Jean-Antoine Houdon

On March 18, 2026 - 18th Century, 19th Century, French, march 20

Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor, March 20, 1741 – July 15, 1828

Rembrandt Peale

Jean Antoine Houdon, 1808

Oil on canvas

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

George Washington, Undated

Plaster, 18 3/4 x 12 x 10 3/4 //

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Marble Bust of Voltaire, 1778

Marble, 14.5 x 8.4 x 8.3 in //

Fine Arts Museum of Angers, France.

Bust of Juliette Recamier

Voltaire Seated, 1780 - 1790

Terracotta, 47.2 × 24.4 × 37.4 in //

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Flayed Man, 1767

Plaster, 72.8 x 31.4 in //

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Flayed Man, 1767

Plaster, 72.8 x 31.4 in //

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Diana, 1780

Marble, 82.6 × 38.5 × 45.2 in //

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon

Bust of Anne-Marie-Louise Thomas de Domangeville de Sérilly, Comtesse de Pange, 1780

Art Institute of Chicago

Madame Houdon, c 1787

Plaster, 18.8 x 15.3 in //

Louvre Museum, Paris

Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, c 1775

Terracotta, 19 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 11 1/4 in //

Cleveland Museum of Art

Robert Fulton, 1908 cast after 1803 original

Bronze

National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Benjamin Franklin, 1778

Marble, 23 1/8 × 14 1/2 × 11 1/4 in

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

On February 26, 2026 - 19th Century, French, march 3

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, French painter, March 3, 1803 – August 22, 1860

Engraving of Self-Portrait of Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1852

Interior of a Turkish Cafe, 1833 or later

Oil on canvas, 0.50 in x 0.62 in //

Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Turkish Children by a Fountain, 1846

Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 29.1 in //

Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

The Hunter, 1818 - 1860

Oil on canvas, 7.4 x 9.5 in //

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands

The Turkish Patrol, 1831

Oil on canvas, 45.2 x 70.4 in //

Wallace Collection, London

Albanian Duel, 1828

Water- and bodycolour, with gum, heightened with white, 11.8 x15.5 in //

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Albanian Dancers, c 1835

Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 48.8 in //

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest

Experts in the Painter's Atelier, after 1837

Ink and wash on paper, 6.7 x 9.2 in //

National Museum in Warsaw

A House in Turkey, 1820–60

Ink, chalk, watercolor, and oils on blue wove paper, 7 11/16 x 11 7/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bassets and Dog Seller

Watercolor on paper, 6.6 x 9.25 in

Private collection

A Turkish Council Meeting

Watercolor on paper, 8.1 x 10.4 in //

Amsterdam Museum

An Accident on the Hunt

Watercolor on paper, 7.8 x 10.9 in //

Amsterdam Museum

Turkish Guardsmen, 1841

Brown wash, watercolor and bodycolor, on grey paper, 9 7/16 × 13 in //

Getty Center, Los Angeles

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