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| Mélitine Thierrat Miniature Self Portrait 1894 watercolor on ivory Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Pierrine Marie Louise Puisoye Miniature Portrait of Marguerite Puisoye (the artist's sister) 1894 watercolor on ivory Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Miniature Portrait of Madame Jarre ca. 1821 watercolor on ivory (unfinished) Musée du Louvre |
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| Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Hesse Hebe serving Jupiter before 1879 watercolor on ivory Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Baptiste Fortuné de Fournier Chamber of Ministers, Palais des Tuileries, Paris 1862 watercolor on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Démosthène Dugourc Design for Wall Hanging Throne Room, Palais des Tuileries, Paris 1819 watercolor on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine Napoleon and Marie Louise of Austria receiving Homage after their Wedding 1810 watercolor on paper Musée du Louvre |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Monument to Bartolomeo Colleone, Venice ca. 1827 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Boat at Sea with Five Sailors ca. 1819-20 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Odalisque 1827 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington Older Woman attending Younger Woman in Bed 1826 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| Édouard Manet Dead Christ with Angels ca. 1864 watercolor (study for painting) Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| Théodore Géricault Portrait of Mustapha (Géricault's Turkish Servant) before 1824 watercolor Musée du Louvre |
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| James Tissot Study for Margarete at the Well (scene from Goethe's Faust) ca. 1861 watercolor Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
"Work on Faust accompanied Goethe throughout his adult life. Of a possible plan in 1769 to dramatize the story of the man who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for earthly fulfillment, perhaps including his ultimate redemption, no firm evidence survives. In its first known form, Goethe's version already contains the feature that most decisively differentiates it from its predecessors, the 16th-century German chapbooks about Faust and the puppet plays ultimately deriving from English dramatist Christopher Marlowe's adaptation of those chapbooks for the stage: the tragic story of Faust's love for a town girl, Margarete (Gretchen), her seduction, infanticide, and execution. This theme is entirely of Goethe's invention."
– Encyclopedia Britannica
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| Anonymous French Artist Young Woman at her Dressing Table 1896 watercolor on ivory Musée d'Orsay, Paris |