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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

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

On May 6, 2025 - 18th Century, 19th Century, april 5, French

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter, April 5, 1732-August 22, 1806

Self-portrait with Smiling Face, circa 1800 Gray wash and black chalk, 4.96 in x 3.97 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Diana and Endymion, c. 1753/1756 Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 53 7/8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

La Gimblette (Girl Playing with her Dog), c. 1770 Oil on canvas, 35 in × 28 in // Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Falls of Tivoli, 18th century. Oil on canvas, 28.5 x 23.8 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Honoré Daumier

On April 30, 2025 - 19th Century, february 26, French

Honoré Daumier, French artist, February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879

Daumier c. 1850

Couple Singing, 1845-1850 Oil on canvas, 14.6 x 11.2 in // Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Honoré Daumier, Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal, c 1850 Charcoal, watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 21.8 x 17.6 in The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Camille Desmoulins in the Palais Royal, c 1850 Charcoal, watercolor and gouache on cardboard, 21.8 x 17.6 in // The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Honoré Daumier, The Two Colleagues (Lawyers Series), 1865–1870 Opaque and transparent watercolor, black ink, and charcoal on wove paper, 10 × 7 13/16 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

The Two Colleagues (Lawyers Series), 1865–1870 Opaque and transparent watercolor, black ink, and charcoal on wove paper, 10 × 7 13/16 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Fugitives, 1848 Plaster Relief, 21.5 x 36.8 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Georges Seurat

On April 27, 2025 - 19th Century, december 2, French

Georges Seurat, French painter, December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891

Georges Seurat, 1888

The Seine at Courbevoie, 1885; France Oil on canvas, 31.9 x 25.6 in // Private Collection

Eden Concert, (Date unknown) Lithograph Columbus Museum of Art

The Zone (Outside the City Walls), 1882–1883 Black conte crayon on cream laid paper, 9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in // Art Institute of Chicago

View of Le Crotoy from Upstream, 1889 Oil on canvas, 27.7 in x 34.1 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Channel at Gravelines, Evening, 1890 Oil on canvas, 25.74 in x 32.24 in // Museum of Modern Art, New York

Corner of the Harbour, Honfleur, 1886 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 25.5 in // Kruller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Sunday at Port-en-Bessin, 1888 Oil on Canvas, 26 x 32 1/2 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Jean-François Millet

On April 22, 2025 - 19th Century, French

Jean-François Millet, French artist, October 4, 1814- January 20, 1875

Painter Jean-François Millet by Nadar, 1856–58 Metropolitan Museum, New York

Manor Farm Cousin in Greville, 1854 Watercolor on paper, 8.85 x 11.10 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Spring, 1868-1873 Oil on canvas, 33.9 x 43.3 in // Musée d’Orsay, Paris

The Large Shepherdess, c.1862 Etching, 12.6 x 9.4 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Death and the woodcutter, from 1858 until 1859 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 39.3 in // Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

Haystacks: Autumn, circa 1874 Oil on canvas, 33.4 x 43.3 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A Woman Baking Bread, 1854 Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 18.1 in // Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Sheepfold, Moonlight, from 1856 until 1860 Oil on panel, 17.8 x 24.9 in // Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Edgar Degas

On April 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, july 19

Edgar Degas, French Artist, July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917

"In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false." — Degas

Eugène Manet, 1874 Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 33.9 // Private Collection

Three Ukrainian Dancers, 1895 Pastel, 24.5 x 20.9 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Edgar Degas, At the Milliner's, 1882 Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting, 30 x 34 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

At the Milliner's, 1882 Pastel on pale gray wove paper (industrial wrapping paper), laid down on silk bolting, 30 x 34 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Self Portrait with Evariste de Valernes, c.1865 Oil on canvas, 45.9 x 35.3 in Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Self Portrait Saluting, 1863 92x61cm Oil on canvas, 36.2 x 24 in // Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

At the Mirror, c. 1889 Pastel on paper, 19.3 x 25.2 in // Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Harlequin and Columbina, 1886

Two Riders by a Lake, c.1861 Pen and ink // Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris

Paul Lafond and Alphonse Cherfils Examining a Painting, c. 1878–80 Oil on wood panel, 16 3/4 x 19 11/16 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Dancer in Ukrainian Dress, 1899 Pastel over charcoal on tracing paper, 24.3 in x 17.9 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Lowering the Curtain, c.1880 Pastel Private Collection

Houses at the Foot of a Cliff (Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme.), circa 1895-1898 Oil on canvas, 36.2 in x 28.6 in // Columbus Museum of Art

The Road, 1878 Monotype (black ink) on china paper National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Portrait of a Woman, 1877 Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 × 21 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Woman with a Bandage, between 1872 and 1873 Oil on canvas, 13 × 9 3/4 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Violinist and Young Woman, ca. 1871 Oil and crayon on canvas, 18 1/4 × 22 in // Detroit Institute of Art

Woman with a Vase, 1872 Oil on canvas, 25.6 x 21.3 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Lorenzo Pagans and Auguste de Gas, 1871 - 1872 Oil on canvas, 21.25x 15.35 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Louis-Marie Pilet, Violoncellist in the Orchestra of the Opéra, 1868-69 Oil on canvas, 19.9 x 24 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Hélène Rouart in her Father's Study, circa 1886 Oil on canvas, 63.9 x 47.6 in // National Gallery, London

Place de la Concorde, 1875 Oil on canvas, 30.8 x 46.2 in // Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Bellelli Family, 1858 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 98.4 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

At the Races in the Countryside, 1869 Oil on canvas, 14.37 x 22 in // Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Orchestra at the Opera, circa 1870. Oil on canvas, 22.2 x 17.7 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Woman Getting out of the Bath, c. 1877 Pastel over monotype on paper Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée, 1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 19 x 16.5 in // Private collection

Two Dancers, ca. 1879 Pastel and gouache on paper, 18 1/8 x 26 ¼ in // Shelburne Museum, Vermont

Woman in a Tub, 1886 Pastel on paper, 27.5 x 27.5 in // Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, Connecticut

Édouard Manet

On April 10, 2025 - 19th Century, French, january 23

Édouard Manet, French artist January 23, 1832-April 30, 1883

Édouard Manet

Boats at Berck-sur-Mer, 1873 Oil on fabric, 13 3/8 x 21 15/16 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman in a Round Hat, ca. 1877–79 Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 × 17 3/4 in // Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

The Steamboat, 1868 Oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art

Oysters, 1862 Oil on canvas, 15.4 in x 18.4 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Édouard Manet, Line in front of the Butcher Shop, 1870–71, published 1905 Etching on light blue laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Line in front of the Butcher Shop, 1870–71, published 1905 Etching on light blue laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Woman with a Fan (Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's lover), 1862 Oil on canvas, 35.43 in x 44.48 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Repose, Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1871 Oil on canvas 59.1 in x 44.8 in // Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, R.I.

Perched upon a Bust of Pallas, 1875 Illustration For "THE RAVEN" BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Lithograph 19 1/8 x 12 7/8 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

Édouard Manet, The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1874 Oil on canvas Courtauld Institute of Art, London

The Banks of the Seine at Argenteuil, 1874 Oil on canvas, 24.5 x 40.6 in Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Édouard Manet, Pierrot dancing, 1849 Ink on paper, 10.5 x 8 Private Collection

Pierrot dancing, 1849 Ink on paper, 10.5 x 8 in // Private Collection

Reclining Young Woman in Spanish Costume, 1862-63 Oil on canvas, 37 5/16 × 44 3/4 in // Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Portrait of Emilie Ambre in role of Carmen, c.1879 Oil on canvas, 36.3 in x 28.9 in // Philadelphia Museum of Art

At the Père Lathuille Restaurant, 1879 Oil on canvas 36.2 in x 44 in /// Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, France

The Balcony, 1868-1869 Oil on canvas, 66.9 in x 49 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Woman in furs (Portrait of Mery Laurent), 1882 Pastel, 21.25 x 13.4 in // Private Collection

The Artist (Marcellin Desboutin), 1875 Oil on canvas, 76 15/16 × 51 3/4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Édouard Manet, Dragonfly, plate 1 from Le Fleuve, 1874 Etching, drypoint and aquatint in black on ivory laid paper, 1 15/16 × 2 3/16 in Art Institute of Chicago

Dragonfly, plate 1 from Le Fleuve, 1874 Etching, drypoint and aquatint in black on ivory laid paper, 1 15/16 × 2 3/16 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Interior of a Café, c 1880 Oil on canvas Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, UK

The Salmon, 1868-1869 Oil on canvas, 28.4 x 36.2 in Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT

Manet's Mother in the Garden at Bellevue, 1880 Oil on canvas, 32.2 in x 25.5 in // Private Collection

Beggar with a Duffle Coat (Philosopher), 1865–1867 Oil on canvas, 73 7/8 × 43 1/4 in // Art Institute of Chicago

The Smoker (Le Fumeur), 1879–82 Etching and drypoint on blue laid paper, only state, 9 1/8 x 6 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A young man peeling a pear (Portrait Of Leon Leenhoff), 1868 Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 28 in // Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

The Races, 1865–72, published 1884 Lithograph on chine collé; third state of three, 15 1/4 × 20 1/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, 1864 Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 x 39 3/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sea View, Calm Weather, 1864 Oil on canvas, 29.1 x 36.6 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Eva Gonzales, 1870 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 52.5 in // National Gallery, London

Édouard Vuillard

On April 4, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, november 11

Édouard Vuillard, French painter, November 11, 1868 – June 21, 1940

Self-portrait, Aged 21, 1889 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on canvas, 8.7 in x 6.8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Seated Nude, 1903 Oil on canvas, 32 x 25.4 in // Private Collection

Breakfast at Villerville, 1910 Oil on board, 23 x 30.5 // Private Collection

People in an Interior: Intimacy, 1896 Distemper on canvas Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)

In Bed, 1891 Oil on canvas, 29.13 x 36.22 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait de Madame Frantz Jourdain, 1914 Maruflé on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Édouard Vuillard, Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli, circa 1900–1905 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 14.4 x 22.3 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli, circa 1900–1905 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 14.4 x 22.3 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dressmakers, 1890 Oil on canvas, 18¾ x 22 5/8 in // Private collection

The Flowered Dress, 1891 Oil on canvas, 14.9 x 18.1 in // São Paulo Museum of Art

Venus de Milo, 1920 Oil on canvas Jill Newhouse Gallery

La Salle Clarac, 1922 Oil with distemper on canvas, 38.62 x 45.62 in // Toledo Museum of Art

A Cafe Scene for the Grand Teddy Café and Bar, 1918 Oil on canvas, 5 ft x 11.5 ft (approximately) // Private collection

Lucie Belin Eating a Biscuit, 1915 Pastel on paper, 24¼ x 18 7/8 in // Private collection

Paul Cézanne

On March 27, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 19

Paul Cézanne, French painter, January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906

“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”

Paul Cézanne in 1899

Ker Xavier Roussel, Paul Cézanne on the Hill of Les Lauves, 1906

Apples, Bottle and Chairback, c. 1904 - 1906 Pencil and watercolor, 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 in // The Courtauld, London

In the Woods, c.1900 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

The Vase of Tulips, 1885–1895 Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in / Art Institute of Chicago

Flowers and Fruit, c.1880 Oil on canvas, 14 x 8.25 in / Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Paul Cézanne, Penitent Magdalene, between circa 1868 and circa 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.1 in x 49.7 in Musée d'Orsay, Paris

I Penitent Magdalene, between circa 1868 and circa 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.1 in x 49.7 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

n the Woods, 1894 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

Four Peaches on a Plate, 1890-1894 Oil on canvas, 10 1/16 × 15 3/16 in Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Bottom of the Ravine, c 1879 Oil on canvas, 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches // The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Paul Cézanne, Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, 1893 Oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, 1893 Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 7/8 in // Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Madame Cezanne, 1890 Oil on canvas, 18 5/16 x 15 3/16 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Paul Cézanne, Vase of Flowers, 1900 - 1903 Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Vase of Flowers, 1900 - 1903 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 25.2 in // Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Woman with a Coffeepot, Circa 1895 Oil on canvas, 38 x 51 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot, c.1904 Watercolor on paper // Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

The Trees of Jas de Bouffan in Spring, c.1880 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

A Turn in the Road at La Roche-Guyon, 1885 Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 31 1/2 // Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton, MA

Terracotta Pots and Flowers, 1891–1892 Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 28 7/8 in // Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Portrait of Madame Cézanne, between 1886 and 1887 Oil on canvas, 39.6 in x 32 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

An Old Woman with a Rosary, between 1895 and 1896 Oil on canvas, 31.4 x 25.1 in // National Gallery, London

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