Chefs-d’œuvre · Masterpieces
France’s most celebrated works of art, from the Lascaux caves to Monet’s water lilies: the paintings, sculpture, tapestries and manuscripts that French museums count among their treasures. Each card gives the French title, who made it, when, and where to see it, with notes from French Wikipedia and French museum catalogues.
The works on this site you can see in the Louvre.
The 19th-century masterpieces at the Orsay.
Monet, Renoir, Degas and those who followed.
The sculptor of The Thinker and The Kiss.