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A Montenegrin Chieftain; Théodore Valério

Title: A Montenegrin Chieftain
Artist: Théodore Valério
Artist Life Dates: 1819-1879
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1839-1879
Accession Number: 1895.102
Medium and Support: oil on canvas mounted on board
Artist Nationality: French

Napoleon I as a Child; Anonymous French or American

Title: Napoleon I as a Child
Artist: Anonymous French or American
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1800-1895
Accession Number: 1895.11
Medium and Support: marble
Artist Nationality: French or American

General Lafayette and Madame Roland Drawing a Plan for the Festival of the French Federation in 1791; Jean-Jacques Hauer

Title: General Lafayette and Madame Roland Drawing a Plan for the Festival of the French Federation in 1791
Artist: Jean-Jacques Hauer
Artist Life Dates: 1751-1829
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1791
Accession Number: 1895.39
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Charity (La Charité); William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Title: Charity (La Charité)
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Physical Description: Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
Artist Life Dates: 1825-1905
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1859
Accession Number: 1895.96
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Pasture Grounds in Normandy; Emile van Marcke de Lummen

Title: Pasture Grounds in Normandy
Artist: Emile van Marcke de Lummen
Artist Life Dates: 1827-1890
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1847-1890
Accession Number: 1895.98
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Courtyard in the Sultan's Palace; Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant

Title: Courtyard in the Sultan's Palace
Artist: Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant
Physical Description: This painting shows a scene set in a courtyard with high white walls that is open to the sky. Beyond the wall there is flowering vegetation, tall trees and a tower with a balustrade with keyhole shaped openings. There are two clay pots resting on top of the wall and an oriental style carpet hanging over one side. Within this courtyard, there are three women who are looking at two small leopards that wear metal chains and stand in a keyhole shaped opening of the far right wall. The women, grouped together on the far left side, are wearing 19th century Moroccan dress, including richly embroidered, garments, headscarves and shoes. There is bright sunlight streaming into the room which creates shadows on the walls and floor.
Artist Life Dates: 1845-1902
Century: Late 19th-early 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1872-1902
Accession Number: 1895.99
Medium and Support: oil on panel
Artist Nationality: French

Head of a Dog; Rosa Bonheur

Title: Head of a Dog
Artist: Rosa Bonheur
Artist Life Dates: 1822-1899
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1878
Accession Number: 1919.1
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Cattle and Sheep; Constant Troyon; After

Title: Cattle and Sheep
Artist: Constant Troyon
Artist Life Dates: 1810-1865
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1850-1900
Accession Number: 1922.1
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Fishermen's Hut; Adolphe Appian

Title: Fishermen's Hut
Artist: Adolphe Appian
Artist Life Dates: 1818/19-1898
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1818-1898
Accession Number: 1930.1
Medium and Support: etching and drypoint on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Qu'est-ce c'est! On n'est done p'us des fieres., pl. XIX, from the series "Histoire de Politiquer"; Paul Gavarni

Title: Qu'est-ce c'est! On n'est done p'us des fieres., pl. XIX, from the series "Histoire de Politiquer"
Artist: Paul Gavarni
Artist Life Dates: 1804-1866
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1853
Accession Number: 1930.11
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Tir à la Becasse; Charles Emile Jacque

Title: Tir à la Becasse
Artist: Charles Emile Jacque
Artist Life Dates: 1813-1894
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1813-1894
Accession Number: 1930.15
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Bordeaux, Vue de Cenon; Maxime Lalanne

Title: Bordeaux, Vue de Cenon
Artist: Maxime Lalanne
Artist Life Dates: 1827-1886
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1827-1886
Accession Number: 1930.16
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Rue des Toiles à Bourges; Charles Meryon

Title: Rue des Toiles à Bourges
Artist: Charles Meryon
Artist Life Dates: 1821-1868
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1821-1868
Accession Number: 1930.17
Medium and Support: etching and drypoint on brown paper
Artist Nationality: French

Two Cows; Jean-François Millet

Title: Two Cows
Artist: Jean-François Millet
Physical Description: A shepherdess stands between two cows who are grazing at the center of the image. In the foreground is the indication of a rough track leading towards the distance at left. At the right is a woman bending over beneath a tree.
Artist Life Dates: 1814-1875
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1814-1875
Accession Number: 1930.18
Medium and Support: drypoint and roulette on pale blue laid paper
Artist Nationality: French

(Battle Scene) L'Armée Francaise à la Maglianella; Denis Raffet

Title: (Battle Scene) L'Armée Francaise à la Maglianella
Artist: Denis Raffet
Artist Life Dates: 1804-1860
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1850
Accession Number: 1930.19
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Vanneaux et Sarcelles; Félix Bracquemond

Title: Vanneaux et Sarcelles
Artist: Félix Bracquemond
Artist Life Dates: 1833-1914
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1862
Accession Number: 1930.4
Medium and Support: etching and drypoint on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Allegory; Pierre Brébiette

Title: Allegory
Artist: Pierre Brébiette
Artist Life Dates: 1598 - circa 1650
Century: 17th century
Object Creation Date: 1598 - c. 1650
Accession Number: 1930.5
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Textile; Anonymous French or Italian

Title: Textile
Artist: Anonymous French or Italian
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 2nd half of 18th century
Accession Number: 1930.55
Medium and Support: silk with metallic thread
Artist Nationality: French or Italian

Textile; Anonymous French or Italian

Title: Textile
Artist: Anonymous French or Italian
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 1930.56
Medium and Support: silk
Artist Nationality: French or Italian

Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671); Laurent Cars; After Hyacinthe Rigaud

Title: Portrait of Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671)
Artist: Laurent Cars
Physical Description: A young man with long hair looks over his shoulder at the viewer through an illusionistically described stone octagonal aperture. A heavy satin cloth cascades from his right shoulder towards the viewer and through the opening. On the near side of this rusicated aperture are the palette, brushes, drawing folio and a book, indentifying the sitter as an artist, the identification further secured by the canvas on an easle seen behind the figure.
Artist Life Dates: 1699-1771
Century: 18th century
Object Creation Date: 1733
Accession Number: 1930.6
Medium and Support: engraving on heavy off-white laid paper
Artist Nationality: French

Textile; Anonymous French or Flemish

Title: Textile
Artist: Anonymous French or Flemish
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1930.62
Medium and Support: tapestry
Artist Nationality: French or Flemish

Near Rome (Environs de Rome); Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Title: Near Rome (Environs de Rome)
Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Physical Description: The foreground is trees which frame, in the distance, a church-like structure. On the right are two tree trunks with little foliage. The left side from the bottom and halfway up is darkened area. There are 3 distinguishable trees near the center of the image that are full of foliage. Just to the right of those trees is a tree just as big as the church-like structure.
Artist Life Dates: 1796-1875
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1866
Accession Number: 1930.7
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Biblical Scene; Étienne Delaune

Title: Biblical Scene
Artist: Étienne Delaune
Artist Life Dates: 1518/9-1583
Century: 16th century
Object Creation Date: 1518-1583
Accession Number: 1930.8
Medium and Support: engraving on paper
Artist Nationality: French

The Pond; André des Fontaines

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Title: The Pond
Artist: André des Fontaines
Physical Description: Hilly green landscape with tres, blue skies and clouds. Pond on the right hand side.
Artist Life Dates: 1869-1946
Century: 20th-century
Object Creation Date: circa 1920
Accession Number: 1932.2
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Chartres Cathedral at Three O'Clock; Pierre Gaston Rigaud

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Title: Chartres Cathedral at Three O'Clock
Artist: Pierre Gaston Rigaud
Artist Life Dates: (1874 - 1939)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1923
Accession Number: 1932.4
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

A Country Road; Maurice de Vlaminck

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Title: A Country Road
Artist: Maurice de Vlaminck
Artist Life Dates: 1876-1958
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1876-1938
Accession Number: 1938.19
Medium and Support: reed pen, brush and ink on tan paper
Artist Nationality: French

Pont de l'Estacade; Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine

Title: Pont de l'Estacade
Artist: Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine
Physical Description: This painting shows a view of the Seine river in Paris, including the wooden bridge, the Pont de l'Estacade. The foreground is filled is small boats and a dock winch, while the in the distance the bridge and buildings of Paris glow in late afternoon light.
Artist Life Dates: 1835-1892
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1880-1885
Accession Number: 1938.21
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Etretat, Needle; Maxime Maufra

Title: Etretat, Needle
Artist: Maxime Maufra
Artist Life Dates: 1861-1918
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1895
Accession Number: 1938.22
Medium and Support: opaque watercolor on buff paper
Artist Nationality: French

Mower Sharpening his Scythe (Faucheur aiguisant sa faux); Jules Bastien-Lepage

Title: Mower Sharpening his Scythe (Faucheur aiguisant sa faux)
Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage
Artist Life Dates: 1848-1884
Century: 19th Century
Object Creation Date: 1878
Accession Number: 1940.136
Medium and Support: etching and drypoint on paper
Artist Nationality: French

(Nature Study); Eugene Blery

Title: (Nature Study)
Artist: Eugene Blery
Artist Life Dates: 1805-1887
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 1849
Accession Number: 1940.137
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

Portal; Charles Huard

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Title: Portal
Artist: Charles Huard
Artist Life Dates: 1874-1965
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1874-1940
Accession Number: 1940.191
Medium and Support: etching on paper
Artist Nationality: French

A Farm (Une Ferme); Charles Emile Jacque

Title: A Farm (Une Ferme)
Artist: Charles Emile Jacque
Artist Life Dates: 1813-1894
Century: 19th Century
Object Creation Date: 1864
Accession Number: 1940.194
Medium and Support: etching touched with black colored pencil, proof on paper
Artist Nationality: French

The Huntress; Louis Blanch[...]; Signed

Title: The Huntress
Artist: Louis Blanch[...]
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1942.2
Medium and Support: oil on canvas
Artist Nationality: French

Lady in an Interior; Eugène Accard

Title: Lady in an Interior
Artist: Eugène Accard
Artist Life Dates: (1824 - 1888)
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: circa 1844-1888
Accession Number: 1943.151
Medium and Support: oil on panel
Artist Nationality: French

The Edge of the Forest; N. Alizone(?); Signed

Title: The Edge of the Forest
Artist: N. Alizone(?)
Artist Life Dates: (active 19th century)
Century: 19th century
Object Creation Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 1946/2.3
Medium and Support: oil on panel
Artist Nationality: French

Odalisque in Striped Trousers, Reflected in Mirror (Odalisque a la culotte rayee, refletee dans la glace); Henri Matisse

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Title: Odalisque in Striped Trousers, Reflected in Mirror (Odalisque a la culotte rayee, refletee dans la glace)
Artist: Henri Matisse
Artist Life Dates: 1869-1954
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1923
Accession Number: 1948/1.101
Medium and Support: lithograph on paper
Artist Nationality: French

La Mort; Jean Hugo

Title: La Mort
Artist: Jean Hugo
Artist Life Dates: (Paris, France, 1894 - 1984)
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1894-1934
Accession Number: 1948/1.210
Medium and Support: gouache on white paper
Artist Nationality: French

Three Figures; Le Corbusier

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Title: Three Figures
Artist: Le Corbusier
Artist Life Dates: 1887-1965
Century: 20th century
Object Creation Date: 1932
Accession Number: 1948/1.211
Medium and Support: pen, brush and watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
Artist Nationality: French