Adoration of the Shepherds
Jean Michelin (1623–1686)
Langres, mid-18th century
Oil on canvas
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Saint-Victor renversant l’autel des faux dieux (Saint Victor Knocking Down False Idols)
Jean-Baptiste Deshays (1729–1765)
Paris, probably 1760
Oil on canvas
Pinnule graphometer
Jean-Jacques Duhamel, the elder (1707–1766) or the son (active between 1763 and 1770)
Paris, mid-18th century
Brass, glass and magnet (instrument); iron and baize (box)
La source abondante (The Bountiful Spring)
Workshop of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)
Paris, 1766
Oil on canvas
Les occupations du rivage (Seashore Occupations)
Workshop of Joseph Vernet (1714–1789)
Paris, 1766
Oil on canvas
Pensées philosophiques
Anonymous (Denis Diderot)
Paris, 1746
Gregorian telescope
Attributed to Claude Paris (1703–1763)
Paris, second third of the 18th century
Brass, iron, steel, glass and leather
Cyclopaedia : or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences […]
Ephraim Chambers (1680–1740)
London, 1741, 2 volumes
Two blade folding knife
Didier Diderot (1685–1759)
Steel, mother-of-pearl
Marine timekeeper
James Hatton
London, circa 1810
Steel, copper, brass, mahogany, glass, baize
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1779
Pierre Jacques Volaire (1729–1799)
Naples, 1779
Oil on canvas
Box microscope
Jean-Baptiste Charles Gonichon (active between 1733 and1763)
Paris, circa 1745–1760
Wood, brass, glass, leather
La fête des bonnes gens ou la récompense de la Sagesse et de la Vertu (A Festival for Good Folk or Wisdom and Virtue Rewarded)
Pierre-Alexandre Wille (1748–1821)
Paris, 1776
Oil on canvas
Jupiter and Juno Receiving Nectar from Hebe
Gabriel François Doyen (1726–1806)
Paris, 1759–1761
Oil on canvas
Copernican orrery
Fortin workshop
Paris, circa 1775
Wood, paper, cardboard, iron
Atlantic puffin
Naturalised bird
France, 19th century
Feathers, skin, iron, wood, glass
Les plans et les statuts des différents établissements ordonnés par Sa Majesté Impériale Catherine II […] (Plans and Statutes of the Various Institutions Ordered by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II […])
Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi (1704–1795)
Amsterdam, 1775
Book
Clock
Joseph de Saint-Germain (?–after 1765) and Claude-Julien Braillard (?–1791)
Versailles, circa 1750
Oak, bronze, brass, iron, horn, enamel
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication (Book of plates on the Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Mechanical arts, with Explanations)
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (1717–1783)
Paris, 1763, 3rd volume of plates
Cutler. Plate 1
Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication (Book of plates on the Sciences, Liberal Arts, and Mechanical arts, with Explanations)
Set of drawing instruments and their case
Michael Butterfield (1635–1724)
Paris, circa 1700
Cardboard and leather for the case
Steel, brass and wood for the instruments
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers […]
Denis Diderot (1713–1784), Jean Le Rond D’Alembert (1717–1783)
Paris, 1751, vol. 1 of the volumes of text
Frontispiece
Apollo and Sarpedon
Jean Simon Berthélemy (1743–1811)
Paris, 1781
Oil on canvas
Jacques le Fataliste and his Master, frontispiece
Denis Diderot
Paris, 1798, 2 volumes
Chest of drawers with foliage and flower motif
Jacques Dubois (1694–1763)
Paris, 1745–1749
Oak, walnut, softwood, purpleheart, satinwood, violetwood, rosewood, bronze, marble
Portrait of Denis Diderot
Attributed to Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771)
Oil on canvas
Paris, circa 1770
Portrait de la marquise de Pompadour (Portrait of the Marquise of Pompadour)
Pastel on canvas
Anonymous, after Maurice-Quentin de La Tour (1704–1788)
France, 19th century
Kava bowl
Tonga (Polynesia), late 18th or early 19th century
Wood, rope
Omai a Native of Ulaietea
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815)
London, 1774
Etching, burin, stippling
Pocket terrestrial globe
John Cary (1755–1835)
London, 1791
Cardboard, paper, iron and shagreen
Marine sextant
George Adams Junior (1750–1795)
London, circa 1780
Brass, glass, wood
Clock, “La Lecture” (“Reading”)
Laurent Guiard (1723–1788) and Pierre Musson
Paris, between 1754 and 1768
Patinated bronze and gilt bronze, wood
Bust of Denis Diderot
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828)
Paris, 1780
Bronze
Sekhmet, goddess with the head of a lioness
Ancient Egypt, Late Period
Wood
Buffer torque
Nogent-en-Bassigny “Marsois”, 4th century BCE
Copper alloy
Imperial statue
Greece, Italy or Roman Gaul, Julio-Claudian dynasty (between 27 BCE and 68 CE)
Marble
Mosaic, known as “The Bacchus Mosaic”
Rhone valley workshop
Langres “Place du Centenaire”, 2nd century CE
Stones
Family funerary stele
Langres, 1st–3rd centuries CE
Limestone
Jug decorated with snakes
Langres “Faubourg des Auges”, 4th century CE
Blown glass
Saint Didier cephalophore
Langres, “Chapelle Saint-Didier”, circa 1230–1260
Limestone
Annunciation, known as “Philip the Bold’s Annunciation”
Burgundian school, early 15th century
Polychrome ivory and ebony
Tiger head
Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
Oil on canvas
Teapot
Anonymous
Manufacture d’Aprey, circa 1765
Faience, low fire, large floral motif
Sépulture de la Motte Saint-Valentin (A Grave at la Motte Saint-Valentin)
Charles Royer (1848–1920)
Langres, late 19th century
Oil on canvas
On loan from the Musée d’Orsay
Mammes in the Flames
Anonymous
Langres, Cathedral, c. 1565
Limestone
Revelation 12. The Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Dragon with Seven Heads
Jean Duvet (c. 1485–c. 1560)
Langres, c. 1546–1555
Burin engraving
Christ Among the Doctors
Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652)
Rome, 1612–1613
Oil on canvas
Feste de Bacchus, célébrée par des Satyres et des Bacchantes (Feast of Bacchus, as Celebrated by Satyrs and Bacchae)
Claude Gillot (1673–1722)
Langres, circa 1700
Etching and burin
L’Imagination (Imagination)
Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804–1856)
Paris, 1839
Oil on canvas
Chose vue un jour de printemps (Seen on a Spring Day)
Joseph-Paul Alizard (1867–1948)
Langres or Paris, 1900
Oil on canvas
Portrait of a Woman as Diana
Nicolas de Largillière (1656–1746)
Circa 1685
Oil on canvas
Twin blade knife
Béligné
Langres,18th century.
Steel, silver, mother of pearl
Bulb jardiniere
Aprey, 18th century
Faience
Fra Angelico da Fiesole
Michel Dumas (1812–1885)
Lyon, 1844
Oil on canvas
La Fête Dieu à Langres (The Feast of Corpus Christi in Langres)
Jules-René Hervé (1887–1981)
Paris, 1925
Oil on canvas
Parclose screen
Anonymous
Langres, Saint-Mammès Cathedral?, circa 1565–1570
Limestone (from Asnières-Lès-Dijon)
Le Berger et la Mer (The Shepherd and the Sea)
Lancelot Théodore TURPIN DE CRISSÉ (1782–1859)
Paris ?, 1827
Oil on canvas
Chapelle Palatine à Palerme (The Palatine Chapel in Palermo)
Joseph Philibert GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (1804–1892)
1835 or 1839
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Le Facteur rural (Country Postman)
Jules ADLER (1865–1952)
1902
Oil on canvas
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Charles Le Brun (1619–1690)
Oil on canvas
Saint Michael Overwhelming the Demon
Jean Tassel (1608–1667)
Oil on wood
Still Life with Fruit
Cornelis de Heem (1631–1695)
Oil on wood
Adoration of the Shepherds
Jean Leclerc (1587–1633)
Nancy, circa 1600
Oil on canvas
Tempête sur la mer (Storm at Sea)
Workshop of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Oil on canvas