Museum of the History of France — highlights
The most celebrated public-domain works at the Museum of the History of France — 85 paintings in this catalogue, spanning 1533 to 1890, most celebrated first. Featuring Franz Xaver Winterhalter, François Gérard and Jacques-Louis David.
Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine
Louis de France, Duke of Burgundy
View of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens from the Avenue de Paris in 1668
Jérôme Bonaparte, King of Westphalia
The Duke of Bordeaux presented to the people and the army by the Duchess of Berry in the presence of the king, surrounded by the royal family and the main figures of the State
Louis-Philippe I, King of the French (1773–1850)
Louis-Philippe and the royal family visit the Historic Galleries of Versailles
Afternoon Tea at the Temple
Jean-Baptiste de Belloy, cardinal
Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla, Princess Borghese
John III Sobieski, King of Poland (1624-1696) with one of his children
Portrait of Louis Philippe I
Les Comices de Lyon
Meeting of Francis I and Pope Clement VII in Marseilles on 13 October 1533
Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans
Napoleon I receives the Queen of Prussia in Tilsitt
Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Marshal of France
Aspasia surrounded by Greek philosophers
Mona Lisa (copy)
The Caliph of Constantine
Charles-Emmanuel Leclerc, general-in-chief of the army of Saint-Domingue (1772-1802)
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Full portrait of HRH The Duchess of Nemours
Allegory of the Marriage of Louis XIV in 1631
Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen of the French
Portrait of Thomas de Savoie, prince de Carignan
Robert, count of Montesquiou-Fezensac (1855-1921)
Jean-Baptiste Kléber, general-in-chief (1753-1800)
Jean-Nicolas, baron Corvisart Desmarets (1755-1821)
Clement IX, Pope
Madame Antoine Arnault
Jean Mathieu Philibert Serurier (1742-1819)
Henri and Charles Beaubrun making the portrait of Queen Marie-Thérèse
Jean-Baptiste Canthaney, known as Cléry, valet de chambre to Louis XVI (1759-1809)
Marie Louise Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld, Duchess of Kent (1786–1861)
Portrait of Henry I, 3rd Duke of Guise"
Pius VII, pope (1740-1823)
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844), King of Neapel
Portrait of Sophie Gay
Portrait of François-Guillaume Ménageot
Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans
Ferdinando I of Parma
Louis-Charles-Antoine Des Aix de Veygoux, dit Desaix, capitaine au 46e régiment d'infanterie de ligne en 1792
Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de Saint-André (ca. 1505-1562), Marschall von Frankreich
Portrait of Joseph Fesch
Étienne-François, Duke of Choiseul-Stainville (1719-1785)
Gregory XVI, Pope (1765-1846)
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610)
Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715)
Portrait of Marc-Pierre de Voyaer de Paulmy, comte d'Argenson (1696-1764)
Portrait of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (1433-1477)
Jean Lannes, Duke of Montebello (1769-1809)
Philippe de Buyster (1595-1688), sculptor
Emmanuel-Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon (1643-1715)
Beatrix Pacheco d'Ascalona
Louis-Claude-Hector, duc de Villars (1653-1734), maréchal de France
Portrait of Louis XIV of France (1638-1715)
Auguste Amalia von Bayern, Vizekönigin von Italien
Nicolas-René Berryer, ministre de la marine (1703-1762)
Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans, lieutenant général du royaume, arrive à l'Hôtel de ville de Paris, 31 juillet 1830
Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848
Portrait of Adélaide d'Orléans
The Chamber of Deputies Received at the Palais-Royal by the Duke of Orleans
Michel de Chamillart, ministre d'Etat (1652-1721)
Francisco Pizarro, conqueror (1475–1541)
Leopold I, King of the Belgians
William IV, King of England (1765–1837)
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, comte Carnot, général (1753-1823)
Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante (1794-1877)
Hugh Capet
Portrait of Marshal MacMahon
The surrender of Cambrai
Louise of Orléans, Queen of the Belgians, and her son
Victoria I, Queen of Great Britain (1819–1901)
Louise-Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans
Louis XV enfant visite le Tsar Pierre Ier à l'hôtel de Lesdiguières, le 10 mai 1717
Portrait of Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie
Portrait of Metternich
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Consort (1819–1861)
Innocent X, Pope (1574-1655)
Bonaparte reçoit les prisonniers sur le champ de bataille, 1797
Asker-Khan, ambassadeur de Perse à Paris en 1808
François, baron Gérard, painter (1770–1837)
Marie Amélie, Duchess of Orléans with her son the Duke of Chartres
Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806-1878), Spanish queen-consort