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| Jean-Joseph Taillasson Cleopatra discovered by Rodogune to have Poisoned the Nuptial Cup (scene from Pierre Corneille's Rodogune) 1791 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| François-Guillaume Ménageot Martyrdom of St Sebastian ca. 1780 oil on canvas Haggerty Museum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
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| Nicolas-Guy Brenet Sleeping Endymion 1756 oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| François Boucher Judgment of Paris 1754 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jean-Jacques Bachelier Still-life with Flowers and a Violin ca. 1750 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Noël Hallé Death of Seneca 1750 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Jean-François de Troy Bathsheba at her Bath 1750 oil on canvas Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Jean-François de Troy Judgment of Solomon 1742 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Jean-François de Troy Cupid and Psyche ca. 1735 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jean-François de Troy Time unveiling Truth ca. 1733 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Jean-François de Troy Ariadne on Naxos 1725 oil on canvas Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
"If the opportunities in the field of easel painting were increasing in the eighteenth century, commissions for altarpieces or large decorative schemes were diminishing. This latter was Cochin's primary concern when he considered the position of painting in the decade that followed the death of Louis XIV and described Cazes's studio, where Chardin had trained: At this time, the art of painting had neither support nor protector and made its pitiful way amid many tribulations. With the exception of Monsieur Le Moyne, Monsieur de Troy, and some portraitists, all artists lived in a mediocrity close kin to penury. There were few pictures to paint for individuals, and church commissions were rare and paid at so low a price that it was barely enough to live on. . . . They were nevertheless much coveted, since there was at the time no other means of making one's talent known."
– The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648-1793 by Christian Michel, published in France in 2012, translated by Chris Miller and published by Getty Research Institute in 2018
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| Jean Jouvenet Raising of Lazarus ca. 1711 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Charles-Antoine Coypel Athalie questions Joas (scene from Jean Racine's Athalie) 1741 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest |
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| Charles-Antoine Coypel Psyche abandoned by Cupid (scene from ballet) 1730 oil on canvas Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Noël-Nicolas Coypel Triumph of Galatea 1727 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jean-Baptiste Santerre Portrait of a Young Woman with a Letter before 1717 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Jean-Baptiste Santerre Portrait of a Sculptor ca. 1700-1710 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Baptiste Santerre Self-portrait 1704 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |