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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

The Fortune Teller, c 1620 Oil on canvas, 58.9 in × 93.9 in // Toledo Museum of Art

Rafaello Menicucci, from 1630 until 1632 Oil on canvas, 31.4 x 25.5 in // Indianapolis Museum of Art

Denial of Saint Peter, 1615–17 Oil on canvas, 67.7 x 94.9 in // Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi, Florence

Christ and the Adulteress, c 1620s Oil on canvas, 65.98 x 86.49 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

The Last Supper, between 1625 and 1626 Oil on canvas, 54.7 x 90.5 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Martyrdom of St Processus and St Martinian, 1629 Oil on canvas, 10.1 x 64.9 in // Pinacoteca Vaticana

Saint John the Baptist, c 1631 Oil on canvas, 53.1 x 39.4 in // Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Urbano, Apiro, Italy

The Judgment of Solomon Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 83.9 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

Judith and Holofernes, c 1626 Oil on canvas, 53.9 x 70 in // Muża, Valletta, Malta

The Four Ages of Man, c 1629 Oil on canvas, 37.7 x 52.7 in // National Gallery, London

Valentin de Boulogne, David with the Head of Goliath and Two Soldiers, between 1620 and 1622 Oil on canvas, 39 x 52.75 in Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

David with the Head of Goliath and Two Soldiers, between 1620 and 1622 Oil on canvas, 39 x 52.75 in // Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple, c 1618 Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 102.4 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, 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

Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as Mary Magdalene, c 1627 Oil on canvas, 40 x 30.9 in // Los Angeles County Museum of Art

David with the Head of Goliath, 1620 - 1622 Oil on canvas, 47.63 x 37 in // Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa

St Francis of Paola Resuscitating a Child, 1648 Oil on canvas Église-Saint-Henri-de-Lévis, Québec

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, c 1640-1641 Oil on canvas, 12.8 ft x 98.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Crucifixion, 1636 Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France

St Catherine of Alexandria Oil on canvas, 38.58 x 30.51 in // National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Woman Playing a Guitar, c 1618 Oil on canvas, 42 × 29 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Fortune-Teller, c 1620 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 67 in // National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The Ill-Matched Couple/Vanitas, c 1621 Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 29.7 in // National Museum in Warsaw

Judith with the Head of Holofernes, between 1615 and 1620 Oil on canvas, 45.2 x 33.8 in // Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Saint Jerome and the Angel, c 1622/1625 Oil on canvas, 57 x 70 13/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Sophonisba Receiving the Poisoned Chalice, c 1623 Oil on canvas, 49.6 x 61.8 in // Hessen Kassel Heritage, Germany

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)

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

Pierre Lanith Petit, Portrait of Ingres

Self-Portrait at Seventy-Eight, 1858 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 20 // Uffizi Gallery, Florence

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)

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

Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806 Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 63.7 in // Musée de l'Armée, Paris

Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, 1832 Oil on canvas, 45.6 x 37.4 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845 Oil on canvas, 51.8 x 36.2 in // The Frick Collection, New York

Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808 Oil on canvas, 74.4 x 56.6 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Turkish bath, 1862 Oil on canvas, 42.5 × 43.3 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Grand Odalisque, 1814 Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 63.7 in // Louvre Museum, Paris

The Valpinçon Bather, 1808 Oil on canvas, 57 × 38.4 in // Louvre, Paris

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

Paul Sescau, Photo of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

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

At the Moulin Rouge, 1892/95 Oil on canvas, 48.42 x 55.51 in // Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Painter Suzanne Valadon, 1885 Oil on canvas, 21.6 x 18.1 in // National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires

The Laundress, 1889 Oil on canvas, 36.6 x 29.5 in // Private collection

Gaston Bonnefoy Oil on board, 28 x 14.6 in // Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

At the Moulin-Rouge, Two Women Walzing, 1892 Oil on board, 36.6 x 31.4 in // National Gallery Prague

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Rue des Moulins, 1894 Oil on cardboard on wood, 32.8 x 24.1 in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Medical Inspection at the Rue des Moulins, 1894 Oil on cardboard on wood, 32.8 x 24.1 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric", between 1895 and 1896 Oil on canvas, 57 1/16 x 58 11/16 in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in "Chilpéric", between 1895 and 1896 Oil on canvas, 57 1/16 x 58 11/16 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mademoiselle Nys, 1899 Oil on unprimed wood, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Émilie, late 1890s Oil on wood, 16 1/4 x 12 3/4 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Yvette Guilbert, 1893 Gouache and charcoal on Paper. 21.25 x 14.75 in // Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon), 1887–1889 Oil on canvas Private collection

The Laundress, 1888 Black and gray wash with white paint on gray cardboard, 29 7/8 x 24 13/16 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

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