Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, the best-known painting in the world, in the early sixteenth century.
French painter Jacques-Louis David--a former revolutionary who became Napoleon's official painter--created The Coronation of Napoleon in 1807.
This grim and brooding work of Romanticism was painted by Theodore Gericault in 1819.
One of France's most famous paintings was created by Eugene Delacroix in 1830, celebrating the overthrow of Charles X that year.
The Three Graces is a 1794 painting by Jean Baptiste Regnault.