The Triumph of Henry IV
Peter Paul Rubens1627-1631Joseph Ducreux
Renaissance painter wins the internet
1735-1802Angelica Kauffmann
A feminist prodigy charms the European elite
1741-1807Jacques-Louis David
Virtuoso painter, political chameleon, complete jerk.
1748-1825Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Painted for Marie Antoinette and never made a dime
1755-1842Antonio Canova
A global titan of neoclassical sculpture
1757-1822Portrait of John Apthorp and His Daughters
Angelica Kauffmann1764Anne-Louis Girodet
A phenom works himself to death
1767-1824Portrait of Marie-Joséphine Buron
Jacques-Louis David1769Portrait of Philip Tisdall with his Wife and Family
Angelica Kauffmann1770The Family of The Earl of Gower
Angelica Kauffmann1772Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
Angelica Kauffmann1774Erasistratus Discovers the Cause of Antiochus's Disease
Jacques-Louis David1774Self Portrait
Angelica Kauffmann1770-1775A Young Woman of Frascati
Jacques-Louis David1775We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson1776Female Allegory
Angelica Kauffmann1780Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1782Ferdinand IV King of Naples and his Family
Angelica Kauffmann1782-1783Marie-Antoinette with the Rose
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1783Portrait of Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski
Angelica Kauffmann1786The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David1787Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, Marie-Anne-Pierrette Paulze.
Jacques-Louis David1788The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
Jacques-Louis David1789The Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David1793Bacchus and Ariadne
Angelica Kauffmann1794Self Portrait
Jacques-Louis David1794Psyche Abandoned
Jacques-Louis David1795Portrait of a Young Woman in White
Jacques-Louis David1798The Intervention of the Sabine Women
Jacques-Louis David1795-1799Self Portrait
Angelica Kauffmann1800Anna von Escher van Muralt
Angelica Kauffmann1800Portrait of Corisande de Gramont
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun1800Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass
Jacques-Louis David1802Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine
Jacques-Louis David1805-1807Sappho and Phaon
Jacques-Louis David1809The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Jacques-Louis David1812General Étienne-Maurice Gérard
Jacques-Louis David1816The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
Jacques-Louis David1818Portrait of the Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte
Jacques-Louis David1821Alexandre Cabanel
Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge
1823-1889Mars Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces
Jacques-Louis David1822-1824William-Adolphe Bouguereau
A natural academic creates beauty by the rules
1825-1905Arc de Triomphe
1806-1836Mary Edmonia Lewis
New York woman of color takes over the world of Italian sculpture
1844-1907The Death of Moses
Alexandre Cabanel1850Dante and Virgil in Hell
William-Adolphe Bouguereau1850The Birth of Venus
Alexandre Cabanel1863Columbus
Mary Edmonia Lewis1865-1867Forever Free
Mary Edmonia Lewis1867Bust of Dr. Dio Lewis
Mary Edmonia Lewis1868Hiawatha's Marriage
Mary Edmonia Lewis1871Pieta
William-Adolphe Bouguereau1876The Birth of Venus
William-Adolphe Bouguereau1879Return of Spring
William-Adolphe Bouguereau1886The First Mourning
William-Adolphe Bouguereau1888Christ and the Storm
Giorgio de Chirico1914The Eventuality of Destiny
Giorgio de Chirico1927Bathers on the Beach
Giorgio de Chirico1934Self Portrait in Black Costume
Giorgio de Chirico1948