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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

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

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

On May 17, 2025 - 19th Century, august 28, French

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter, August 28, 1780 – January 14, 1867)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Henry IV Receiving the Spanish Ambassador, 1817 Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata, 27.7 in x 31.6 in Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris)

Henry IV Receiving the Spanish Ambassador, 1817 Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata, 27.7 in x 31.6 in // Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris)

Self-portrait at age 24, 1804 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Venus Anadyomene, between 1808 and 1848 Oil on canvas, 64.5 × 32.2 in Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Antiochus and Stramoine, 1840 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Augustus Listening to the Reading of the Aeneid, c. 1814 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 55.9 in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Augustus Listening to the Reading of the Aeneid, c. 1814 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 55.9 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Georges Braque

On May 13, 2025 - 20th Century, French, may 13

Georges Braque, French artist, May 13, 1882 – August 31, 1963

Georges Braque, 1908

Woman Holding a Mandolin, 1910 Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 28.7 in (oval) // Bavarian State Painting Collection, Munich

Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908 Oil on canvas, 28.7 x 23.6 in // Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Violin and Candlestick, 1910 Oil on canvas, 24 in x 19 3/4 in // San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

On May 12, 2025 - 19th Century, French, november 24

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French artist, November 24, 1864 – September 9, 1901

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Bartet and Mounet-Sully, in Antigone, 1893 Crayon and brush lithograph printed in two colors on wove paper trimmed to plate edge; second state of two, 14 15/16 x 11 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bartet and Mounet-Sully, in Antigone, 1893 Crayon and brush lithograph printed in two colors on wove paper trimmed to plate edge; second state of two, 14 15/16 x 11 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jane Avril, 1893 Lithograph Cleveland Museum of Art

Philippe de Champaigne

On May 10, 2025 - 17th Century, Belgian, French, may 26

Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian-French painter, May 26, 1602 – August 12, 1674

Self-portrait (copy), between 1625 and 1650 Oil on canvas The Museum of Grenoble, France

The Repentant Magdalen, 1648 Oil on canvas, 45.63 x 35 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Moses with the Ten Commandments, 1648 Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 29.5 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Arnauld d'Andilly, 1650 Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 28.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Philippe de Champaigne, Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1648 Oil on canvas, 101.1 x 77.6 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, 1648 Oil on canvas, 101.1 x 77.6 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Portrait of Ferdinand de Boisschot Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 39.4 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Portrait of Cardinal Richelieu, c. 1639 Oil on canvas, 87.4 x 61 in // Louvre, Paris

Portrait of Cardinal Mazarin, 17th century Oil on canvas, 80.7 x 56.6 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Laurent de La Hyre

On May 7, 2025 - 17th Century, february 27, French

Nicolas Poussin

On May 7, 2025 - 17th Century, French, june 15

Nicolas Poussin, French painter, June 15, 1594 – November 19, 1665

Self portrait of Nicolas Poussin, 1650 Oil on canvas, 38.5 in x 29.1 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Ecstasy of St Paul, between 1649 and 1650 Oil on canvas, 58.2 in x 47.2 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Birth of Venus, 1635 or 1636 Oil on canvas, 38.27 in x 42.55 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Inspiration of the Poet, circa 1629 and circa 1630 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 83.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Healing of the Blind of Jericho, c. 1650 Oil on canvas, 46.9 x 69.3 in // Louvre, Paris

The Death of Sapphira, 1650s Oil on canvas, 48 x 78.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Massacre of the Innocents, c 1625-1626 Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 67.3 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Holy Family, circa 1640 or possibly circa 1642 Oil on canvas, 26.3 x 19.2 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Nicolas Poussin, Midas Transforming into Gold the Branch of a Holm Oak, between 1631 and 1633 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 39.3 in Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Midas Transforming into Gold the Branch of a Holm Oak, between 1631 and 1633 Oil on canvas, 29.5 x 39.3 in // Condé Museum, Chantilly, France

Pierre Bonnard

On May 6, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, october 3

Pierre Bonnard, French artist, October 3, 1867 -January 23, 1947

Still Life with Dog, c. 1912 Oil on canvas, 20 1/4 × 24 1/2 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Dusk, or a Round of Croquet, 1892 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 63.9 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Interior, c 1920 Oil on canvas, 20.9 x 22.4 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Plate of Apples on a Table, between 1910 and 1912 Oil on canvas, 17 x 24.9 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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