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Selected Works The Art of Portraiture

How has the art of portraiture evolved over the years? Explore portraiture through the ages with sculptures and paintings of emblematic figures such as Caesar and Napoleon, or simply private individuals.

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Decorative Arts

Equestrian statuette of...

Horse: Late Byzantine Empire (or possibly 9th century),...

Provenance: Metz Cathedral
Paintings

Adriaen van OSTADE (Haarlem, 1610-Haarlem, 1685)

Family portrait

1654
Prints and Drawings

Maurice-Quentin Delatour(Saint-Quentin,...

Full-length portrait of the...

1748-55
Paintings

Fontainebleau school

Gabrielle d'Estrées and One...

c. 1594
Paintings

Hyacinthe RIGAUD

Louis XIV (1638-1715)

1701
Paintings

Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES

Louis-François Bertin

1832
Paintings

Jacques-Louis DAVID

Madame Récamier

1800
Paintings

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known as LEONARDO DA...

Mona Lisa – Portrait of Lisa...

c. 1503–06
Paintings

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Old Man with a Young Boy

c. 1490
Egyptian Antiquities

Portrait of a woman, known as...

AD 120-130

Antinoöpolis (Antinoë), Egypt
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Portrait of Alexander the Great...

Roman, Imperial (1st-2nd century AD)

Provenance: Tivoli (east of Rome), Italy
Paintings

Raffaello SANTI, known as RAPHAEL (Urbino, 1483 – Rome,...

Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione...

1514-15
Paintings

Jean CLOUET

Portrait of François I, king of...

c. 1530
Paintings

Sir Henry RAEBURN (Stockbridge [now in Edinburgh],...

Portrait of Major James Lee Harvey
Decorative Arts

Jean FOUQUET

Self-Portrait

C. 1450
Paintings

François DESPORTES

Self-portrait in Hunting Dress

1699
Paintings

Albrecht DÜRER

Self-Portrait or Portrait of the...
Paintings

Francisco de GOYA (Y LUCIENTES)

The Countess del Carpio, Marquesa...