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An 1881 oil on canvas, Young Girl with a Stick (aka The Sheperdess), by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The girl's face reflects the colours of the leaves, flowers, and her...

An 1898 oil on canvas, Place du Théâtre Français, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist painted many scenes of Paris in this later stage of his career. Many, as here...

An 1897 oil on canvas, Boulevard Montmartre Night Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Pissarro very rarely painted night scenes, but here he captures Émile...

An 1887 oil on canvas landscape by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Here the artist is using the pointillist method of building up an image using small dots of colour. Unlike...

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, marble bust by Henri-Frédéric Iselin (1825-1905). Palace of Versailles. Photo: Philippe Dessante

Marie-Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey, marquise de Monnier, lover of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, engraving by Jean-Louis Delignon, 1804. MAS Estampes Anciennes, Paris.

A c. 1900 oil on canvas self-portrait by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist had a long white beard from middle age onwards, which led to friends in cafés calling "Hail...

Portrait depicting Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791), French orator, politician and French Revolutionary leader. Pastel on paper by Joseph Boze, 1789. Palace of Versailles.

Etching depicting the famous reply of Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau to a representative of the king who had asked deputies of the Estates-General to disperse on 23 June 1789, engraved by Alphonse Lamotte...

Codex Alexandrinus, one of the three early Greek manuscripts that preserve both the Old and the New Testaments together, copied in the 5th century. British Library, London.