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Manuscript illumination depicting Nyx and the Prophet Isaiah from the Paris Psalter (Parisianus graecus 139, folio 435 verso), c. 940-960. National Library of France, Paris. The prophet Isaiah is flanked by Nyx (Night) and the Dawn. The...

Night (La Nuit), oil on canvas painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1883. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington D.C.

An 1873 oil on canvas painting, Hide and Seek (Cache Cache), by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. This work was shown in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874. (Private Collection)

An 1872 oil on canvas painting, The Cradle, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. The figures are the artist's sister Edma and her daughter Blanche. The soft colours suggest the tender relationship between mother...

An 1881 oil on canvas painting, Eugène Manet & His Daughter in the Garden at Bougival, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. In a scene she painted several times in various poses, the artist presents her husband Eugène...

An 1883 oil on canvas painting, Julie & Eugène Manet in the Garden, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. In a scene she painted several times, the artist presents her husband Eugène Manet and daughter Julie. The...

An 1875 oil on canvas painting, Amongst the Wheat, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Painted at Genneviliers, an outer suburb of Paris and showing how the industry of city life was encroaching on rural life.

An 1875 oil on canvas painting, Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Painted in Gennevilliers, an outer suburb of Paris where new housing had recently been built. The painting is a...

An 1881 oil on canvas painting, Peasant Hanging the Washing, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Depicting a scene from the banlieues of Paris where new housing was recently built for poorer families so that they...

Coronation of Melisende of Jerusalem as depicted in the 13th-century French manuscript Fr. 779. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.