Chefs-d’œuvre · Masterpieces

Great French Artwork

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.

Type
Era

In the Louvre Au musée du Louvre

The works on this site you can see in the Louvre.

In the Musée d’Orsay Au musée d’Orsay

The 19th-century masterpieces at the Orsay.

Impressionism L’impressionnisme

Monet, Renoir, Degas and those who followed.

Rodin Auguste Rodin

The sculptor of The Thinker and The Kiss.