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Also Known As Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat
Born June 20, 1833 • Bayonne • France
Died September 8, 1922 (aged 89) • France

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Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889
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Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
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Oil painting self-portrait by Paul Cezanne showing a balding man with a beard, wearing a dark coat, set against a patterned background.
Paul Cézanne
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Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
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Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David
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Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.
Édouard Manet
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Self-portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter
Henri Rousseau: Myself: Portrait-Landscape
Henri Rousseau
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Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
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Charles Le Brun
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“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
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Antoine-Jean Gros
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Jacques Villon
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Bourdon, Sébastien: Bacchus Comforting the Abandoned Ariadne
Sébastien Bourdon
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Vigée-Lebrun, Élisabeth: Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
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The Broken Pitcher, oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1772–73; in the Louvre, Paris. 108 × 86 cm.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
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