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Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a French impressionist painter who transformed modern art with his emphasis on light brushstrokes, bright colours, and uncluttered nature. Famed for his landscapes and series of paintings that captured the same...

A nude girl sits in an ancient landscape, trying to push away Eros / Cupid, the god of love, who is holding an arrow. Nevertheless, she is smiling, suggesting that she might not really want to prevent him from hitting her with the arrow of...

Emperor Napoleon I of France (r. 1804-1814; 1815) meets with Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1801-1825) on a specially built raft in the middle of the Niemen River to discuss peace. It is one of the most iconic episodes of the Napoleonic Era...

Famous meeting between French Emperor Napoleon I and Austrian diplomat Prince Klemens von Metternich at Dresden on 26 June 1813, to negotiate an end to the War of the Sixth Coalition. A heated argument broke out over Metternich's demands...

Night (La Nuit), oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1883. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington D.C.

The Christians of the Holy City Defiling before Saladin by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville Source: François Guizot (1787-1874 CE), The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789, p. 435.

Flora and Zephyr, oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguerau, 1875. Musée des beaux-arts de Mulhouse.

The Birth of Venus (1879 CE) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905 CE). Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

The Abduction of Psyche, oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bougeureau, 1895. Private collection.

Depiction of the September Massacres (2-7 September 1792) at the prison of Abbaye, where around two-thirds of prisoners were murdered. Watercolor by Jules-Adolphe Chauvet, 19th century. Musée Carnavalet, Paris.