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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

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

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

Study of Artist Aman-Jean, 1883 Pencil drawing, 24.4 x 21.3 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Georges Seurat, The Echo, Study for Bathers at Asnières, between circa 1883 and circa 1884 Conté crayon on Michallet paper, 12 5/16 × 9 7/16 in Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

The Echo, Study for Bathers at Asnières, between circa 1883 and circa 1884 Conté crayon on Michallet paper, 12 5/16 × 9 7/16 in // Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

The Sleeper Louvre, Paris

Madame Seurat, the Artist's Mother, from 1882 until 1883 Black chalk, 12 x 9.1 in // Getty Center, Los Angeles

Café-Concert, between 1887 and 1888 Conté crayon heightened with white chalk, 12 3/8 x 9 5/16 in // Cleveland Museum of Art

L'invalide, circa 1881

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

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