About the Artist
Born: El Limon (now in the Dominican Republic), 20 September 1819
Died: Paris, 8 October 1856
Nationality: French
Died: Paris, 8 October 1856
Nationality: French
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- Absinthe
- Achilles Lamenting the Death of Patroclus
- Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus
- Aino Myth
- Albertine in the Police Doctor’s Waiting Room
- Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the Tent of Achilles
- Ancient City of Agrigentum
- And the Angel Which I Saw Lifted Up His Head to Heaven
- Apollo and the Thessalonian Shepherds
- Arthäber Family
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- Barque of Dante
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- Battle of Eylau
- Beach at Trouville
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- Birth of Venus
- Blessed Art Thou Among Women
- Blowing Soap Bubbles
- Bottle is Brought Out for the First Time
- Boulevard des Capucines
- Boulevard du Temple, Paris
- Breton Women in the Meadow
- Brigand Asleep
- Brothers Emperor Joseph
- Burghers of Calais
- Burial at Ornans
- Chalk Sellers
- Chartres Cathedral
- Child’s Bath
- Chirk Aqueduct
- Christ and Buddha
- Christina of Sweden Refusing to Spare the Life of Her Equerry, Monaldeschi
- Clementina in Underclothes
- Coalbrookdale at Night
- Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match
- Colossal Statue of Ramesses II at Abu-Simbel
- Colosseum Seen Through the Basilica of Constantine
- Condemned Cell II
- Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
- Count Ugolino and his Children
- Course of Empire: Arcadian State (2nd in series)
- Cross in the Mountains (The Tetschen Altar)
- Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm with the Corpse of General Douay
- Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
- Death as Victor
- Death of General Wolfe
- Death of Germanicus
- Death on a Pale Horse
- Denis Diderot
- Devil’s Bridge
- Downpour
- Dream/Sleep of Reason
- Drunken Cobbler
- Drying Laundry
- Déjeuner sur l’herbe
- Endymion
- Entrance of Emperor Rudolf into Basel
- Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889
- Entry of Karl V into Antwerp
- Eruption of Vesuvius
- Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
- Factory Near Pontoise
- Family of Carlos IV
- Farmers Nooning
- Fight Between Jacob and the Angel
- Fishermen Carrying a Drowned Man
- Flute Concert at Sanssouci Palace
- Forester
- Forever Free
- Fourteen-Year Old Dancer
- François I Presented as Child to Louis XII
- Funeral
- Funeral of Atala
- Funeral of Patroclus
- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
- Galloping Horse
- Garden at Sainte-Adresse
- Gates of Hell
- Gathering Water Lilies
- George Washington at the Battle of Trenton
- Gin-Crazed Girl Commits Suicide
- Goethe in the Roman Campagna
- Governess
- Granite Bowl in the Berlin Lustgarden
- Greek Slave
- Gross Clinic
- Hammerer
- Hay Wain
- Hireling Shepherd
- His late Royal Highness, The Prince Consort
- Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter
- Horse Fair
- Hülsenbeck Children
- I Lock My Door Upon Myself
- Injured Mason
- Inspection, Rue des Moulins
- Intentional Fool
- Intersection of “Puits Certains” in Paris (5th arondissement)
- Irish Famine
- Iron Rolling Mill
- Island of the Dead, 5th version
- Italian Mother and Her Baby in Jersey Street
- Jason with the Golden Fleece
- Jewish Woman of Algiers
- Joseph Sold by His Brothers
- Judgment of Brutus
- King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia
- Kneeling Girl with Basket Overflowing with Flowers
- Kneeling Youth
- La Grande Odalisque
- Landscape with a Clump of Trees
- Large Bathers
- Last Supper
- Latticed Window in Lacock Abbey
- Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou
- Liberty Enlightening the World
- Liberty Leading the People
- Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
- Lion Attacking a Horse
- Lion Crushing a Serpent
- Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
- Madwoman
- Marat
- Marie-Antoinette and Her Children
- Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
- Marriage à la Mode
- Marriage à la Mode: The Tête à Tête
- Marseillaise – Departure of the Volunteers of 1792
- Marsh Flower
- Massacre at Chios
- Medieval City on a River
- Meeting
- Melancholia
- Migration of the Serbs
- Modern Olympia
- Monsieur Belley
- Monument to Frederik V
- Monument to Josef II
- Moorish Bath
- Morning
- Morning of the Streltsi Execution
- Murder of Jane McCrea
- Music in the Tuileries
- Nameless and Friendless
- Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker
- Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass
- Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa
- Nation Distributing Crowns to Great Men Who Protect Liberty
- Night
- Nightmare
- Oath of the Horatii
- Old Kentucky Home: Life in the South (Negro Life at the South)
- Old Shepherd’s Chief Mourner
- Olympia
- Omai
- Ophelia
- Painter’s Studio: A Real Allegory
- Paris Street: Rainy Day
- Parnassus
- Peasant Funeral
- Peasant Wedding
- Peter the Great
- Physic Street, Canton
- Poor Fisherman
- Postmortem Unidentified Child
- Promenading in a Park
- Prussian Oath
- Raft of the Medusa
- Railway
- Railway Station
- Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway
- Religion: the Vision of Sir Galahad and His Company
- Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
- Roman Beggar
- Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments
- Romans of the Decadence
- Rouen Cathedral, Façade
- Rue Transnonain
- Salisbury Cathedral Seen from the Meadows
- Salon des Rose et Croix
- Sanssouci Palace
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Saturn Devouring His Children
- Scream
- Scripture Reader in a Night Refuge
- Seller of Cupids
- Seni by the Corpse of Wallenstein
- Sick Child
- Silence of the Forest
- Silesian Weavers
- Sir John Herschel
- Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying – Typhoon Coming On)
- Sleep of Endymion
- Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps
- Song of the Shirt
- Sower
- Starry Night
- Stone Breakers
- Stonebreaker
- Summer Day at the South Beach of Skagen
- Summer Scene
- Sunday Evening in a Dalarna Cottage
- Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884
- Swidden Farming
- Symphony in White No. 1
- Talisman
- Tepidarium
- Thinker
- Third of May 1808
- Thracian Girl Carrying the Head of Orpheus
- Three Women in Church
- Threshing Floor
- Traveler in a Sea of Fog
- Triumph of the Republic
- Triumphal Entry of Franz I
- Tuerie (Slaughter)
- Two Ways of Life
- Ugolino and His Sons
- Uncle Tom and Little Eva
- Valley of the Shadow of Death, Crimean War
- View from the Embankment of Lake Sortendam
- View from the Window at Le Gras
- View of Oaitepeha Bay, Tahiti
- View of the Sea: The Brig
- Villa at the Seaside
- Viscount Lepic and His Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde
- Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
- Vow of Louis XIII
- Ward of Madwomen at San Bonifazio in Florence
- Water Sprite
- Where do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- White Cloud, Chief of the Ioways
- Windsor Castle in Modern Times
- Woman Bitten by a Snake
- Women of Algiers
- Women of Eger
- Wood and Dawkins Discovering Palmyra
- Work
- Wounded Cuirassier Leaving the Field of Battle
- Yard with Madmen (Corral de Locos)
- Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point
- Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine
- Zeuxis Selecting Models for Helen of Troy
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