Paintings

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2017

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Water Lilies

Monet at the Orangerie

Playing

Orangerie, Renoir

Saint Sebastian

the Louvre, Mantegna

John the Baptist's Head

the Louvre, Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist, Luini

Jupiter Hurling Thunderbolts at the Vices

the Louvre, Paolo Veronese

In the same room as the Mona Lisa; most of the paintings in that room are more interesting than the Mona Lisa itself.

Francesca et Paolo

the Louvre, Scheffer

Close up

An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging

the Louvre Gericault

Napolean

Close up of painting in the Musee d'Orsay

Herculaneum

Musee d'Orsay

Hector Leroux

Le Sahara

Gustave Guillaumet

Detail

Maximilian Luce Une rue de Paris en mai 1871 dit aussi La Commune

Musee d'Orsay

L'Enigma

Gustave Dore

Musee d'Orsay

Self Portrait

Musee d'Orsay

This may have been Van Gogh's final painting. It's stunning to see it in person, regardless of when he painted it.

Detail

Painting with a long title: It's an artillery charge in the Crimean War. Adolf Schreyer

Musee d'Orsay

Labourage Nivernais: Le Sombrage

Rosa Bonheur

Musee d'Orsay This painting looks like a photograph, really impressive.

Stormy Sea

Gustave Courbet

Musee d'Orsay

The Wedding at Cana

the Louvre

Paolo Veronese Directly across from the Mona Lisa, it's a much more interesting painting, and it's much easier to get a closer look.

Detail

from Le Deluge

Anne-Louis Girodet de oucy-Trioson

the Louvre

Detail

the Louvre

Love the evil look on this figure's face.

Le Port De Lorient

Berthe Morisot, one of the female impressionists

Bathers

Cezanne

Monet

Precursor to modern art. (like the Water Lilies series)

Commune

Full version of the detailed painting above

L'Enigma

Full painting

African Elephants

from the "oriental" paintings in the Musee d'Orsay

"Whistler's Mother"

Real name: Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1

Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix The Louvre