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Alfred Sisley

On June 9, 2025 - 19th Century, French, october 30

Alfred Sisley, French painter, October 30, 1839 – January 29, 1899

Sisley in March 1863

Tugboat on the Loing, Saint-Mammès, circa 1883 Edit this at Oil on canvas, 35 x 42.3 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

The Pit Sawyers, 1876 Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 34.2 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

The Church in Moret, 1894 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 47 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

The Aqueduct at Louveciennes, 1874 Oil on canvas, 21.37 x 32 in // Toledo Museum of Art

Molesey Weir, Hampton Court, 1874 Oil on canvas, 20.11 x 27.08 in // Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Rest along the Stream. Edge of the Wood, 1878 Medium oil on canvas, 28.74 x 31.49 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Avenue of Chestnut Trees in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1865 Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 98 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

View of the Canal Saint-Martin, 1870 Oil on canvas, 19.6 x 25.5 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Chemin de la Machine, 1873 Oil on canvas, 21.4 x 29.5 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Meadow, 1875 Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 28.7 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fog, Voisins, 1874 Oil on canvas, 19.68 x 25.59 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Under the Bridge at Hampton Court, 1874 Oil on canvas, 19.7 x 29.9 in // Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

Women Going to the Woods, 1866 Oil on canvas, 25.5 x 36.2 in // Artizon Museum, Tokyo

The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring, 1875 Oil on canvas, 28.9 x 39.2 in // Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Boat in the Flood at Port Marly, 1876 Oil on canvas, 19.6 x 24 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

June Morning in Saint-Mammès, 1884 Oil on canvas, 21.2 x 28.7 in // Artizon Museum, Tokyo

François Clouet

On June 8, 2025 - 16th Century, French, nbd

François Clouet, French painter, c. 1510 – December 22, 1572

Portrait of François Clouet

Odet De Coligny, Cardinal De Chatillon, circa 1548 Oil on canvas, 37 x 28.7 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

A Lady in Her Bath, circa 1571 Oil on oak wood, 36.33 x 31.96 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Love Letter, circa 1570 Oil on panel, 16.3 x 21.6 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Portrait of Charles IX Oil on panel // Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen, France

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Félix Vallotton

On June 5, 2025 - december 28, French, Swiss

Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter and graphic artist, December 28, 1865-December 29, 1925

Félix Vallotton, Self-portrait (1897)

Woman Doing Her Hair, 1900 Oil on cardboard, 23.9 x 31.6 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

The Loge of the Theater, a Gentleman and a Lady, 1909 Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 14.9 in // Private collection

Félix Vallotton, The Five Painters: Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Cottet and Vallotton, 1902-03 Oil on canvas, 57 1/16 × 73 5/8 in Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

The Five Painters: Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel, Cottet and Vallotton, 1902-03 Oil on canvas, 57 1/16 × 73 5/8 in // Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland

The Visit, Interior with Blue Sofa, 1899 Tempera on cardboard, 21.8 x 34.2 in // Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

The Chaste Susanna, 1922 Oil on canvas, 21.3 x 28.7 in // Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland

Félix Vallotton, Interior with Woman in Red Seen from Behind, 1903 Oil on canvas, 36 5/8 by 28 inches Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Interior with Woman in Red Seen from Behind, 1903 Oil on canvas, 36 5/8 by 28 in // Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Félix Vallotton, The Lie, 1897 Woodblock print, 7 1/8 by 8 7/8 inches, from the portfolio “Intimacies” Musée D’art Et Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

The Lie, 1897. From the portfolio “Intimacies” Woodblock print, 7 1/8 by 8 7/8 in // Musée D’art Et Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Woman Searching through a Cupboard, 1901 Oil on canvas. 30.1 x 15.7 in // Private Collection, Switzerland

The Waltz, 1893 Oil on Canvas, 24 in x 19.6 in // Museum of Modern Art André Malraux, Le Havre, France

Woman with a bouquet, 1922 Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 44.9 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris

Paul Signac

On June 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, november 11

Paul Victor Jules Signac, French painter, November 11, 1863 – August 15, 1935

Signac with his palette, c. 1883

Place des Lices, Saint-Tropez, 1893 Oil on canvas, 25.7 x 32.2 in // Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Paul Signac, The Gas Tanks at Clichy, 1886 Pen and iron gall ink over graphite on Japan paper on cardboard, 9 5/8 x 14 7/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Gas Tanks at Clichy, 1886 Pen and iron gall ink over graphite on Japan paper on cardboard, 9 5/8 x 14 7/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Town Beach, Collioure, Opus 165, 1887 Oil on canvas, 24 3/4 x 31 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Saint-Tropez, Fontaine des Lices, 1895 Oil on canvas 25 3/5 × 31 9/10 in // Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain

Portrait of Félix Fénéon, 1890 Oil on canvas 28.9 × 36.4 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paul Signac, The Buoy (Saint Tropez Harbor), 1894 Color lithograph on off-white wove paper, 15 13/16 x 12 13/16 in Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge

The Buoy (Saint Tropez Harbor), 1894 Color lithograph on off-white wove paper, 15 13/16 x 12 13/16 in // Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge

Place de Clichy, 1887 Oil on wood, 10 3/4 in. × 14 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Two Cypresses, Mistral, Opus 241, 1893 Oil on canvas, 31.5 x 25.2 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Dining Room, from 1886 until 1887 Oil on canvas, 35.03 x 45.66 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Portrieux, the Lighthouse, Opus 183 Oil on canvas, 18.1 x 26.6 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Woman with a Parasol, 1893 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 25.5 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Road to Gennevilliers, 1883 Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 36 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Comblat-le-Château, the Meadow, Opus 161, 1886 Oil on canvas, 24.8 x 30.3 in // Dallas Museum of Art

Les Andelys, Côte d'Aval, 1886 Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 × 36 1/4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Gasometers at Clichy, 1886 Oil on canvas, 25.59 x 31.88 in // National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Sunday, between 1888 and 1890 Oil on canvas, 59 × 59 in // Private collection

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

On June 4, 2025 - 19th Century, French, july 16

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter, July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875

Portrait of Corot by Étienne Carjat, November 6, 1870

Man in Armour, from 1868 until 1870 Oil on canvas, 28.9 x 23.2 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Woodland Music Makers, 1857 Oil on canvas, 39 in × 51 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Marietta, 1843 Oil on canvas, 19.2 in x 24.8 in // Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris)

Jean-Baptiste-Camille, Pensive Young Woman (Jeune femme pensive), 1855–1860 Oil on panel (later mounted to plywood), 12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Pensive Young Woman (Jeune femme pensive), 1855–1860 Oil on panel (later mounted to plywood), 12 1/2 × 9 5/16 in Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Camille Corot, The Four Times of Day, about 1858 Oil on wood, each panel, 56 x 28.5 National Gallery, London

The Four Times of Day, about 1858 Oil on wood, each panel, 56 x 28.5 in // National Gallery, London

Italian Woman, about 1870 Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.2 in // National Gallery, London

Meadow with Willows, Monthléry, 1860s Oil on canvas, 13.8 x 8.7 in // Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Smyrne, Bournabat, 1873 Oil on paper, 5.9 x 8.2 in // Private collection

Monk in White, Seated, Reading, between 1850 and 1855 Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 17.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Jean Siméon Chardin

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, november 2

Jean Siméon Chardin, French painter, November 2, 1699 –December 6, 1779

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Self-portrait, 1771 Pastel on paper, 18.1 x 14.9 in Louvre, Paris

The antiquarian monkey, circa 1740 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 25.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Hard-working Mother, 1740 Oil on canvas, 19.2 x 15.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Lady Sealing a Letter, 18th century Oil on copper, 10 x 9.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Portrait of Françoise-Marguerite Pouget, Madame Chardin, 1775 Pastel on paper, 18.1 x 14.9 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Basket of Peaches, with Walnuts, Knife and Glass of Wine, 1768 Oil on canvas, 12.5 x 15.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Basket of Plums, 1765 Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 in // Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

The Ray, 1727 Oil on canvas, 45 x 57.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Melon, Pears, Peaches and Plums, 1763 Oil on canvas, 23.6 x 20.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Jar of Apricots, 1758 Oil on canvas, 22.51 x 20 in // Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Still-Life with Cat and Fish, 1728 Oil on canvas, 31.1 x 24.8 in // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The Copper Drinking Fountain, c. 1734 Oil on wood, 11.2 x 9.1 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Attributes of Music, 1765 Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 57.1 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Water Glass and Jug, c. 1760 Oil on canvas, 12.8 x 16.1 in // Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

'La Brioche', 1763 Oil on canvas, 18.5 x 22 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

Still-Life with Pipe an Jug, c. 1737 Oil on canvas, 12.8 x 15.7 in // Musée du Louvre, Paris

François Boucher

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, september 29

François Boucher, French painter, September 29, 1703 – May 30, 1770

Portrait of Boucher by Gustaf Lundberg, 1741

Diana Leaving Her Bath, 1742 Oil on canvas, 22 x 28.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan, c. 1754 Oil on canvas, 64.6 x 28 in // The Wallace Collection, London

Venus and Vulcan, 1754 Oil on canvas, 64.7 x 28.1 in // The Wallace Collection, London

Portrait of Madame de Pompadour, 1756 Oil on canvas, 83.4 × 64.5 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Triumph of Venus, 1740 Oil on canvas, 51.18 x 63.77 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Resting Girl, 1752 Oil on canvas, 23.4 x 28.7 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Leda and the Swan, 1742 Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 × 29 1/4 in // Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Toilette of Venus, after 1743 Oil on canvas, 39.7 x 34.2 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Allegory of Painting, 1765 Oil on canvas, 39 15/16 x 51 3/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Dovecote, 1758 Oil on canvas, 18 5/8 x 28 in // Saint Louis Art Museum

François Boucher, Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun, circa 1765 Brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper, (octagonal) 18 1/8 x 15 13/16 in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun, circa 1765 Brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper, (octagonal) 18 1/8 x 15 13/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Reclining Female Nude, Seen From Behind, early 1730s Red and white chalk, on light brown paper, 10.4 x 12.8 in // Private collection

François Boucher, A Putto With Two Torches, 18th century Coloured chalks on green-grey paper; border line with pen in brown , 8.7 x 10.8 in Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden

A Putto With Two Torches, 18th century Coloured chalks on green-grey paper; border line with pen in brown , 8.7 x 10.8 in // Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden

Jean-Antoine Watteau

On May 26, 2025 - 18th Century, French, october 10

Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter, October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721

Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of Antoine Watteau, c. 1721

Nymph and Satyr/Jupiter and Antiope, 1716 Oil on canvas, 28.9 x 42.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Music Lesson, c. 1717 - 1718 Oil on pine panel with walnut strips, 6.3 x 7.8 in // Wallace Collection, London

Mezzetin, c. 1717–9 Oil on panel, 10.9 x 8.3 in // Wallace Collection, London

The Music Party, circa 1719 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 36.4 in // The Wallace Collection, London

A Lady at her Toilette, between 1717 and 1719 Oil on canvas, 17.7 x 14.8 in // The Wallace Collection, London

Woman Seen from the Back, c.1715/16 Graphite and red chalk on paper, 5.5 x 3.8 in // National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, ca. 1717-1718 Black, red, and white chalk on buff paper, 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in The Morgan Library, New York

Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, ca. 1717-1718 Black, red, and white chalk on buff paper, 7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in // The Morgan Library, New York

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Study of a Woman's Head and Hands, ca. 1717 Red and white chalk and graphite on off-white laid paper, 7 1/2 x 5 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Study of a Woman's Head and Hands, ca. 1717 Red and white chalk and graphite on off-white laid paper, 7 1/2 x 5 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Figure of a Nude Woman, c. 1713-18 Oil on panel, 6 x 7 in // Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, California

Children of Bacchus Oil on canvas, 23.6 x 29.1 in // Louvre, Paris

The French Comedians, ca. 1720 Oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 28 3/4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pleasures of Love, between c 1718 and c 1719 Oil on canvas, 23.62 x 29.52 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

The Feast of Love Oil on canvas, 24.01 x 29.52 in // Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

The Embarkation for Cythera, 1717 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on canvas, 50.7 x 76.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Seated Woman, between 1716 and 1717 Drawing, 9.4 × 5.4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Actors of the Comédie-Française, between 1711 and 1718 Oil on panel, 7.8 x 9.8 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Hagopdjan of Deritchan, an Armenian who Accompanied the Persian Embassy to Versailles in 1715

Valentin de Boulogne

On May 25, 2025 - 17th Century, French, january 3

Valentin de Boulogne, French Painter, January 3, 1591 – August 18, 1632

Musician and Drinkers, circa 1625 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 52.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Soldiers Playing Cards and Dice (The Cheats), 1618-20 Oil on canvas, 47.6 x 59.8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Samson, 1631 Oil on canvas // 53 3/8 × 40 1/2 in Cleveland Museum of Art

Musicians and Soldiers, 1626 Oil on canvas, 61 x 78.7 in // Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, France

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca. 1626–27 Oil on canvas, 38 3/16 × 29 1/8 in // Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

Allegory of Italy, between 1627 and 1628 Oil on canvas, 10.8 ft x 96.4 in // Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Rome

Simon Vouet

On May 25, 2025 - 17th Century, French, january 9

Simon Vouet, French painter, January 9, 1590 – June 30, 1649

Self-portrait (c. 1626–1627)

Saint Sebastian, circa 1625 Oil on canvas, 37.7 in x 29 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Simon Vouet, Lovers, between 1614 and 1618 Oil on Canvas Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Lovers, between 1614 and 1618 Oil on Canvas Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Entombment Oil on canvas, 42.5 in x 46.8 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Allegory of Wealth, 1640s Oil on canvas, 66.9 x 48.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

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