french paintings in the princeton university art museum

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1856, Daumier, Head of an Old Woman

1856, Daumier, Head of an Old Woman

Honoré Daumier, French, 1808–1879 Head of an Old Woman, ca. 1856–60 Oil on panel 21.9 x 16.5 cm. (8 5/8 x 6 1/2 in.) frame: 30.5 x 36.0 x 6.5 cm. (12 x 14 3/16 x 2 9/16 in.) The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundat... More

Hauling the Seine - Public domain  drawing

Hauling the Seine - Public domain drawing

Thomas Eakins, American, 1844–1916 Hauling the Seine, 1882 Oil on canvas 31.5 x 46.8 cm. (12 3/8 x 18 7/16 in.) frame: 59.8 × 75.5 × 14 cm (23 9/16 × 29 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.) Gift of the Forbes Collection: Steve For... More

Bonheur, Rosa, Study of a Dog, possibly 1860s

Bonheur, Rosa, Study of a Dog, possibly 1860s

Bonheur was renowned for her animal paintings. She may have seen the long-eared terrier that is the subject of this oil study in the Fontainebleau forest, near her home in Thomery, or it may have been one of t... More

Boudin, Eugène, Fishing Boats at Kerhor, 1872

Boudin, Eugène, Fishing Boats at Kerhor, 1872

Boudin was from a seafaring family in Le Havre, a harbor and resort town on the coast of Normandy. Rather than go to sea, he ran a stationery shop and began to exhibit works by the Barbizon School artists—who ... More

Boudin, Eugène, Study - A painting of a field with a house in the distance

Boudin, Eugène, Study - A painting of a field with a house in the dist...

Dutch seventeenth-century landscapes were avidly collected and held in high esteem in France by the late eighteenth century, but only in the Romantic era was their full influence felt in French painting. By th... More

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon, Attributes of the Architect, ca. 1725-27

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon, Attributes of the Architect, ca. 1725-2...

Catalogue Entry: Chardin practiced an art form that, by tradition, was not of a high rank: in the academic hierarchy, still life was placed lower than history painting, portraiture, genre scenes, or even anima... More

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon, Attributes of the Painter, ca. 1725-27

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon, Attributes of the Painter, ca. 1725-27

Catalogue Entry: Chardin practiced an art form that, by tradition, was not of a high rank: in the academic hierarchy, still life was placed lower than history painting, portraiture, genre scenes, or even anima... More

De Champaigne, Philippe, The Visitation, 1643-48

De Champaigne, Philippe, The Visitation, 1643-48

Catalogue Entry: Philippe de Champaigne, a founding member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, was a follower of the Jansenist movement, which sought to use art as an aid to meditation and elim... More

Gauguin, Paul, Figures in an Interior, ca. 1890

Gauguin, Paul, Figures in an Interior, ca. 1890

Picryl description: Public domain photo of portrait art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Maignan, Le départ d'Hector

Maignan, Le départ d'Hector

Français : Albert Maignan, Le départ d'Hector, Princeton, University Art Museum English: Albert Pierre Rene Maignan, French, 1845 – 1908 Place made: France, The Departure of Hektor, Oil on canvas, 68 x 100.8 ... More

Jean-François Millet - Apport à la maison le veau né dans les champs (1860)

Jean-François Millet - Apport à la maison le veau né dans les champs (...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Redon, Odilon, Apparition, 1905-10

Redon, Odilon, Apparition, 1905-10

Catalogue Entry: Late in his career, Redon abandoned charcoal ­drawing and lithography to embrace color, working in pastels and oil paints. With this shift came a change of mood; the brooding melancholy and ni... More

Vuillard - Woman in an Interior (Madame Hessel at Les Clayes), 1935

Vuillard - Woman in an Interior (Madame Hessel at Les Clayes), 1935

Woman in an Interior (Madame Hessel at Les Clayes), 1935

Clairin, Georges, Le Carnage, 1890

Clairin, Georges, Le Carnage, 1890

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The artist carried in a sillero over the Chiapas from Palenque to Ocosingo, Mexico, by Johann Friedrich Waldeck, French, c. 1833, oil on wood panel - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC07048

The artist carried in a sillero over the Chiapas from Palenque to Ocos...

The artist carried in a sillero over the Chiapas from Palenque to Ocosingo, Mexico, by Johann Friedrich Waldeck Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

The Rape of the Sabines, by Jacques Stella, French, mid 1600s, oil on canvas - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06492

The Rape of the Sabines, by Jacques Stella, French, mid 1600s, oil on ...

Exhibit in the Princeton University Art Museum - Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

Jean-Baptiste Wicar - Public domain portrait painting

Jean-Baptiste Wicar - Public domain portrait painting

Self-portrait Public domain photograph of 18th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Patel the Younger, Winter landscape with bridge and castle, 1693

Patel the Younger, Winter landscape with bridge and castle, 1693

Pierre-Antoine Patel, called Patel the Younger, French, 1648–1707 Winter landscape with bridge and castle, 1693 Gouache on parchment 15.9 x 27 cm. (6 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.) Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial F... More

Swagers, Charles, The Tomb of Maria Christina of Austria, by Antonio Canova, 1820s

Swagers, Charles, The Tomb of Maria Christina of Austria, by Antonio C...

Catalogue Entry: This painting was submitted to the Paris Salon of 1833 by the little-known painter Charles Swagers. The cenotaph depicted here stands in the Augustinian Church in Vienna; commissioned by Duke ... More

Stella, Jacques, The Rape of the Sabines, mid 17th century

Stella, Jacques, The Rape of the Sabines, mid 17th century

Although born in Lyons, Stella received his artistic formation during his eighteen years in Italy (1616–34), where he and another French expatriate artist, Nicolas Poussin, became close friends. Like many pain... More

David and studio, Jacques-Louis, The Death of Socrates, after 1787

David and studio, Jacques-Louis, The Death of Socrates, after 1787

Catalogue Entry: This is an unfinished replica of David’s Death of Socrates (Salon of 1787; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The left section is nearly complete, lacking only bars on the window and decor... More

After Poussin - Apostles on Galilee, y1937-263

After Poussin - Apostles on Galilee, y1937-263

Apostles on Galilee, y1937-263