Top famous paintings: works, artists and museums

Place de la Concorde, 1875 – Edgar Degas
Top 20 paintings where changes of scale construct perspective
Twenty paintings to compare the apparent size of figures and buildings and understand depth. Read more...
Le Géographe, 1669 – Johannes Vermeer
Top 20 paintings to offer to a lover of old maps and geography
Twenty paintings of geographers, maps, globes and panoramas to offer to a geography lover. Read more...
Iris, F608 – Vincent van Gogh
Top 20 paintings to offer to a botany enthusiast
Twenty paintings of plants and flowers to offer to a botany enthusiast. Read more...
Atelier de menuisier - Gustav Wentzel
Top 20 paintings to decorate an antique furniture restoration workshop
Twenty paintings by carpenters, planers and antique furniture to decorate a restoration workshop. Read more...
Salle à manger à la campagne - Pierre Bonnard
Top 20 paintings to decorate a dining room with mismatched chairs
Twenty paintings to combine with a dining room with mismatched chairs, with ideas for colors and frames. Read more...
Nature morte à la cruche de Quimper - Paul Gauguin
Top 20 paintings to accompany a green zellige splashback
Twenty paintings of earthenware, fruit and pottery to combine with a green zellige splashback. Read more...
Côtes du Pays de Galles dans la brume - Alfred Sisley
Top 20 verdigris and cream paintings for an interior with brass accents
Twenty paintings with gray greens, cream tones and warm accents to combine with brass. Read more...
Les Époux Arnolfini - Jan van Eyck
Top 20 paintings where signatures and inscriptions are part of the scene
Twenty paintings to identify signatures, dedications, inscriptions and fragments of text in the painted scene. Read more...
Cathédrale de Rouen, façade ouest, au soleil W1324 – Claude Monet
Top 20 paintings where a pattern extends from one painting to another
Four series by Monet and Pissarro to observe how the same pattern changes from one painting to another. Read more...
Le Pont de Waterloo, effet rose W1583 – Claude Monet
Top 20 paintings where the contours blend into the color
Twenty landscapes where neighboring tones, mist and reflections blur the contours. Read more...
Terrasse du café le soir, F467 – Vincent van Gogh
Top 20 paintings where warm and cold lights meet
Twenty paintings to compare lighting, halos and hot or cold reflections. Read more...
Le Souffleur à la lampe - Georges de La Tour
Top 20 paintings where the light of a lamp reveals faces
Twenty paintings to compare flame light, halftones and illuminated surfaces around faces. Read more...
La Cène - Léonard de Vinci
Top 20 paintings where almost perfect symmetry catches the eye
Twenty works to learn to identify the axis of a composition and the variations on either side. Read more...
Place de la Concorde, 1875 – Edgar Degas
Top 20 paintings where a detail at the edge of the frame changes the reading
Twenty paintings to observe what silhouettes, objects and elements cut at the edge of the frame change on stage. Read more...
Nocturne en bleu et or - le Vieux Pont de Battersea - James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Top 20 paintings where a large empty surface balances the composition
Twenty paintings to observe the role of small, poorly detailed supermarkets, from the nocturnes of Whistler to Malevich. Read more...
Le Retour de Judith à Béthulie, vers 1470-1475 – Botticelli
Top 20 paintings by Judith and Holofernes, from the banquet to the return to Bethulia
Twenty paintings by Judith and Holofernes, from the reception at the camp to Klimt's interpretations. Read more...
Prométhée portant le feu - Peter Paul Rubens
Top 20 paintings by Prometheus, from stolen fire to deliverance
Twenty paintings around the myth of Prometheus, from the flame given to humans to the deliverance of the Titan. Read more...
Pénélope et les prétendants - John William Waterhouse
Top 20 paintings of Ulysses and Penelope, from waiting to returning to Ithaca
Twenty paintings of the Odyssey, from the expectation of Penelope to the trials of Ulysses and the return to Ithaca. Read more...
Didon construisant Carthage ou l'Ascension de l'Empire carthaginois - J. M. W. Turner
Top 20 paintings of Dido and Aeneas, from Carthage to separation
Twenty works that follow Dido and Aeneas, from the founding of Carthage to the departure of the hero and the destiny of the queen. Read more...
Léda et le Cygne - Antonio da Correggio
Top 20 works of Leda and the Swan, from the Renaissance to symbolism
Twenty works around Leda and the swan, between Renaissance compositions, modern copies and interpretations. Read more...
La toilette de Vénus - François Boucher
Top 20 paintings of Venus at her toilet, mirror and bath
Twenty paintings to compare the mirror, the toilet and the bath of Venus, from Titian to Redon. Read more...
Un rucher dans la forêt - Ivan Chichkine
Top 20 works on hives, bees and honey
Twenty works around honey, between apiaries, still life, mythological stories and insect studies. Read more...
Des pigeons et un chien dans un jardin - Melchior de Hondecoeter
Top 20 paintings of pigeons, doves and dovecotes
Twenty paintings of pigeons and doves in gardens, farmyards and portraits, as well as views of dovecotes. Read more...
Soirée d'été à Skagen – La femme de l'artiste avec son chien - Peder Severin Krøyer
Top 20 paintings of waiting or waiting dogs
Twenty paintings of attentive dogs on a threshold, in an interior or in a portrait. Read more...