ActiveMuseum_0014483.jpg / The queen, Marie Antoinette and his children
10/12/2013 - / 19th century / Le Vigee Lebrun

ActiveMuseum_0014467.jpg / Earthenware tile depicting night. Printed and hand-painted. Designed by Walter Crane and made by maw & Co, Broseley, Shropshire for the Paris Exhibition of 1878
21/01/2014 - / 19th century / Walter Crane

ActiveMuseum_0006787.jpg / Visit of Napoleon III at Genoa
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Théodore Gudin

ActiveMuseum_0006788.jpg / Boarding of Ruyler and Witt at Texel, 1667
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Eugène Isabey

ActiveMuseum_0006790.jpg / The queen Victoria at Cherbourg, 6th august 1858
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio

ActiveMuseum_0006791.jpg / Visit of the queen Victoria at Tréport, september 1843
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Eugène Isabey

ActiveMuseum_0006792.jpg / The harbour of Cherbourg
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Louis-Philippe Crépin

ActiveMuseum_0006793.jpg / The night of Battle of Navarino, 20th October 1827
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Auguste Mayer

ActiveMuseum_0006794.jpg / Brest's Harbour
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio

ActiveMuseum_0006808.jpg / View of Scheldt
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ambroise Louis Garneray

ActiveMuseum_0006809.jpg / Departure of dugout to fishing at Guet n'Dar, Senegal
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Marius Perret

ActiveMuseum_0006811.jpg / The storm
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Jean-François Portaels

ActiveMuseum_0006812.jpg / The diamant leaving the Havre
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Edouard Adam

ActiveMuseum_0006813.jpg / The Eagle, imperial yacht
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley

ActiveMuseum_0006814.jpg / The harbour of Bordeaux. On the left, the place des Quinconces
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Edme-Emile Laborne

ActiveMuseum_0006770.jpg / The arrest of Charlotte Corday (1768-1793)
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Henry Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006771.jpg / Martyr down to Catacombs
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Félix Auvray

ActiveMuseum_0006772.jpg / Léon Riesener
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Eugène Delacroix

ActiveMuseum_0006773.jpg / Charlemagne receives the submission of Wittikind at Paderborn
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006774.jpg / The Battle of Tolbiac
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006775.jpg / Rebecca kidnapped by Bois-Guilbert
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Léon Cogniet

ActiveMuseum_0006776.jpg / Mars and Rhea Silvia
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / André Giroux

ActiveMuseum_0006777.jpg / The death of Cleopatra
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Pierre-Raymond Monvoisin

ActiveMuseum_0006778.jpg / Herminie at the shepherd
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Joseph-Desire Court

ActiveMuseum_0006779.jpg / The marriage of the Virgin
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Jerome Martin Langlois

ActiveMuseum_0006780.jpg / Pauline Viardot
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006781.jpg / Portrait of the queen Maria Amelia
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006782.jpg / Sophie Marin, future wife of the artist
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006783.jpg / Dona Francisca de Bragança, Princess of Joinville
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006784.jpg / Faust in his office
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006785.jpg / Portrait of the presumed Mr. Nottebohm
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006786.jpg / The priest Gaspard Deguerry
07/12/2013 - / 19th century / Ary Scheffer

ActiveMuseum_0006678.jpg / The stallholder of coco
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Augusta Le Baron-Desvres

ActiveMuseum_0006681.jpg / Woman at dog
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Ferdinand Heilbuth

ActiveMuseum_0006682.jpg / After the service of Sainte-Trinité church
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Jean Beraud

ActiveMuseum_0006688.jpg / An elegant place de la Concorde
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Louise Abbéma

ActiveMuseum_0006689.jpg / Madam Blerzy
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Henri Gervex

ActiveMuseum_0006693.jpg / On the boulevards
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Louis Abel-Truchet

ActiveMuseum_0006694.jpg / The boulevard of Clichy
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Louis Abel-Truchet

ActiveMuseum_0006697.jpg / Marguerite and Robert de Brogile
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Émile-Auguste Carolus-Durand

ActiveMuseum_0006700.jpg / Isabelle of Orléans, duchess of Guise (1878-1961)
Great- granddaughter of Louis Philippe I, she married in 1899 her first cousin, the duke of Guise who became the chief of Orléans's home in 1926.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Jules Cayron

ActiveMuseum_0006703.jpg / The works of Orleans's new railway station, Orsay quay
In contemplation of the international exhibition of 1900 that the Orléans line, which ends into the actual Austerlitz's railway station was extended until the center of Paris. The new railway station, work of the architect Laloux, occupied the place of counts court, fired by the Commune; since 1986, it's the Orsay Museum.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Victor Marec

ActiveMuseum_0006704.jpg / The Big and the Small palace in construction
As part of the work for the universal exhibition of 1900 that the architect Girault guide the construction of the two palaces, occupying the place of the Industry palace (1855), on both sides of the avenue, traced in the axis of the Invalides. He was particularily charged of the Smallest palace and give the Big one to Degalne's, Louvet's and Thomas's architects.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Georges Souillet

ActiveMuseum_0006705.jpg / The works of the Big Palace and the bridge of Alexander III, in 1899
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Georges Souillet

ActiveMuseum_0006706.jpg / The boulevard Poissonniere under the rain
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Jean Beraud

ActiveMuseum_0006707.jpg / Entrance of the universal exhibition of 1889
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Jean Beraud

ActiveMuseum_0006709.jpg / Diner at the Ambassadeurs
The famous concert-café occupied one of the pavilion raised by Hittorff at the Champs-Elysées in 1841. Nowadays, it's replaced by the theatre of Ambassadeurs, in actual Espace Cardin.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Jean Beraud

ActiveMuseum_0006710.jpg / The Sorbonne in 1890
The structure is under transformation. At the foreground, the chapel is extended by the Ouest wing of Lemercier, stayed undamaged until 1893. At the background, around the street of Ecoles, the new building corresponds to the first part, finished in 1889, by Paul Nenot's works.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Victor Dargaud

ActiveMuseum_0006711.jpg / Roads of the Moon, Beauregard and the Cléry view from boulevard Saint-Denis
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Emmanuel-Maurice Lansyer

ActiveMuseum_0006712.jpg / The courtyard of the older Sorbonne
Built at the request of Richelieu, by Lemercier, since 1627 to 1648, the old Courtyard of the Sorbonne made a quadrilateral limited from the South by the chapel. In exception to this, the whole building was destructed to built and enlarge it, between 1885 and 1901 by Paul Nenot's who made the courtyard inspire by the style of Louis XIII. The painting was presented in the Salon of 1887.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Emmanuel-Maurice Lansyer

ActiveMuseum_0006713.jpg / The square Maubert
The painting is part of one od the serie of canvas booked by the prefecture of Seine to be presented at the universal exhibition of 1889.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Emmanuel-Maurice Lansyer

ActiveMuseum_0006714.jpg / The general Boulanger (1837-1891), donation of M.G. Fagot, 1950.
The sentiment that the new parliamentarian republic will not capable to prepare the revenge againt the Prussia favoured the emmergence of the "savior", the general Boulanger, very popular minister of the war. In januray 1889, he wins the election in Paris, but hesitate to walk on the Elysee and, threatened of arrestation, he prefered to escape to Bruxelles, where he died in 1891.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / J. Williamson

ActiveMuseum_0006715.jpg / The passage of Charlemagne
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Emmanuel-Maurice Lansyer

ActiveMuseum_0006716.jpg / Rose Caron (1857-1930)
French singer, she started in triumph at the theatre of Monnaie in Bruxelles creating the role of Brunehilde in the Sigurd of Reyer. She divides her career later between Paris and Brusells, singing the main song of the repertory, especially Wagnerian.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Auguste Toulmouche

ActiveMuseum_0006717.jpg / The Seine at quay Rapée
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Auguste Lepere

ActiveMuseum_0006718.jpg / End of races at Auteuil
Opened in 1873, the Auteuil racetrack field was among the highlights of elegance to the Belle Epoque.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Alfred Smith

ActiveMuseum_0006719.jpg / Rider and carriage on the avenue of wood
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Georges Stein

ActiveMuseum_0006720.jpg / Notre-Dame view from the Colbert's Hotel street
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Emile Guillier

ActiveMuseum_0006721.jpg / Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881)
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Eugène Carrière

ActiveMuseum_0006722.jpg / The town hall in reconstruction
The reconstruction of fired town hall leads to an architect competition from 1873. The winner, Theodore Ballu, proposed a version close to the old building. The somptuous interior decoration, finished only at the beginning of the 20's century, make this whole set the most spectacular one, left by the Third Republic in the art decoration domain.
17/10/2013 - / 19th century / Victor Dargaud