A focus on the collections of paintings from the French school
Delve into the heart of a little-known collection...
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17th-century French school
Augusta Marie Jeanne of Baden-Baden, Duchess of Orléans, by Alexis Simon Belle
Art & Architecture
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Louis-Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, attributed to Pierre Gobert
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Marguerite Hessein, Lady of Rambouillet de la Sablière, by the Beaubrun Brothers’ studio
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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan
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Pierre Gobert, portrait of Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, Duchess of Burgundy.
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A presumed portrait of Roger of Lorraine, Knight of Guise, by Ferdinand II
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Workshop of Eustache Le Sueur, *Vision of Saint Rose or Saint Dorothea*.
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Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse, by the studio of Hyacinthe Rigaud
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18th-century French school
Portrait of Marie-Louise Elisabeth d'Orléans as Diana by Nicolas de Largillière
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Portrait of Charlotte Madeleine de la Mothe-Houdancourt, Duchess of Ventadour
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Marie Leszczyńska (1703–1768), attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo
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Une éruption monumentale du Vésuve ("A monumental eruption of Vesuvius") by Pierre-Jacques Volaire
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Vénus apportant des armes à Enée ("Venus bringing weapons to Aeneas") by Nicolas-André Monsiau
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Alexandre domptant Bucéphale ("Alexander taming Bucephalus") by Nicolas-André Monsiau
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Portrait de Monsieur Carré de Candé et de ses trois fils ("Portrait of Monsieur Carré de Candé and his three sons") by Jean Valade
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Original portrait of Louise-Diane d’Orléans, Princess of Conti, by Pierre Gobert
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A previously unpublished portrait of the Duke of Penthièvre, Admiral of France, attributed to Carle van Loo
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Portrait of the President of Estanville as a Vestal Virgin by Marianne Loir
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A decorative odalisque inspired by Louise-Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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A bust portrait of Marie-Antoinette, based on a work by Louise-Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun
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Hubert Robert, an architectural whim featuring a bridge over a canal
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19th-century French school
La baie de Naples ("The Bay of Naples"), 1820, by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidault
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Le pont d’Auguste ("The Bridge of Augustus") by Jean-Victor Bertin, 1818
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Paysage monumental d’Italie ("Monumental Landscape of Italy"), 1820, by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidault
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Le phare de Gênes ("The Genoa lighthouse") by Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidault
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Orphée aux Enfers ("Orpheus in the underworld"), by Charles Boulanger de Boisfrémont
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A temple at Karnak, by Charles-Théodore Frère, known as Frère-Bey
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16th-century French school
Artemisia drinking the ashes of King Mausolus, after Ambroise Dubois
Art & Architecture
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