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| Claude Gillot Two Clashing Brouette Porters ca. 1707 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Claude Gillot Le Tombeau de Maître André (scène de farce italienne) ca. 1716-17 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Antoine Watteau Love in the French Theater ca. 1715-17 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Nicolas Lancret Declaration of Love ca. 1720 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Nicolas Lancret Dancing in a Pastoral Setting ca. 1740 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jean-François de Troy Hunt Supper 1737 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Marc Nattier The Lovers 1744 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Jacques-Louis David Death of Marat 1794 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Jacques-Louis David Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (detail) 1806-1807 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Auguste Couder Vert-Vert (nuns mourning the death of a parrot, after a poem by Jean-Baptiste Gresset) 1830 oil on canvas Musée de l'Oise à Beauvais |
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| Auguste Couder Opening Session of the General Assembly, 5 May 1789 1839 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Auguste Couder Napoleon visiting the Louvre ca. 1833 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Louis-Julien-Jean Aulnette du Vautenet Departure for the Crusade 1818 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| Louis-Julien-Jean Aulnette du Vautenet Return of the Pilgrim 1818 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| Ernest Meissonier A Sentinel in the Time of Louis XIII 1851 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
from Historical Disquisitions
Hello, hello, what to tell you was
The world's invisible
You see only yourself, that's not the world
although you are of it
– Philip Whalen (1962)