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A 1747 painted portrait by Pierre Allais of Madame Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699-1777), famous as a Parisian salon host. (Private collection)

An 1889 oil on canvas, Young Girls Reading (aka The Two Sisters), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The two girls are Yvonne and Christine, daughters of the painter and collector Henry Lerolle. The brushstrokes...

An 1878 oil on canvas, Madame Charpentier and Her Children, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Georges Charpentier was a publisher who commissioned many works from the artist. The two girls are shown in...

A c. 1905 oil on canvas still life, Strawberries, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Towards the end of his life, suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and wheelchair-bound, Renoir painted many still life...

An 1872 oil on canvas, The Pont Neuf, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The artist here caught the rich variety of people who crossed one of the city's major bridges. In order to capture specific types...

An 1883 oil on canvas, Nude in a Landscape, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. A single female nude in nature was a favourite subject of Renoir's. This work has typical features of such canvases: translucent...

Execution of Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) on 31 October 1793, engraving by an anonymous artist, 1793. National Library of France, Paris.

A 1907 photograph by Pierre Petit of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).

Detail from an altar dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene in the crypt of the Abbey of Saint Victor in Marseille, France. It was carved in the 8th century CE by Pierre Puget, a well-known Marseillais sculptor, to cover the sarcophagus of St...

Château de Talcy, Loir-et-Cher, France. Although the château de Talcy already existed in the 13th century, the château as we know it today owes a lot to the family of Florentine banker Bernard Salviati, who bought it in 1517. It was to Salviati's...