1. The Last Supper
   The Third of May 1808
2. Water Lilies
   The Scream

Water Lilies, sometimes also called “Nymphéas”, is a series of over two hundred paintings which were created by Claude Monet between 1840 and 1926. All of the paintings depict flowers from his garden in Giverny, France. The most famous of these paintings is Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies.

1. Mona Lisa
   Luncheon of the Boating Party
2. Impression, Sunrise
   Arrangement in Grey and Black

Luncheon of the Boating Party, which translates to “Le Déjeuner des Canotiers”, is an oil on canvas painting which was created by the French impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1881. The painting shows a group of the artist's friends, who are relaxing on a balcony at a restaurant along the River Seine in Chatou, France.

1. The Creation of Adam
   The Night Watch
2. The Arnolfini Portrait
   The Card Players

The Card Players is a series created by Paul Cézanne during 1894 and 1895. In 2011, one of the paintings was sold to the Royal Family of Qatar for $250 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a painting.

1. The Persistence of Memory
   The Creation of Adam
2. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
   The Birth of Venus

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was created by French post-Impressionist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat in 1884. This popular painting shows ordinary Parisians relaxing at the park near the banks of River Seine.

1. Girl with a Pearl Earring
   The Ballet Class
2. The Swing
   Musicians

The Ballet Class was created by French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas sometime between 1871 and 1874. The painting shows dancers at the end of their lesson with their ballet master Jules Perrot, who was a close friend of the artist.

1. The Open Window
   The Birth of Venus
2. The Sleeping Gypsy
   Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

The Open Window, also referred to as “Collioure” is a painting by Henry Matisse. Small but wild in its use of color and line, The Open Window is an excellent example of Fauvism. In 1998, the work of art was bequeathed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. by Mrs. John Hay Whitney.

1. The Night Watch
   The Triumph of Galatea
2. Sunset
   The Gleaners

Sunset was created by French/Swiss artist and printmaker Félix Vallotton. The artist was a member of Les Nabis, a group of artists responsible for setting the pace for the arts in France in the 1890s.

1. David
   Oath of the Horattii
2. View of Toledo
   Primerva

Oath of the Horattii, which translates to Le Serment des Horaces, was created by Jacques-Louis David in 1784. This Neoclassical painting, which is currently displayed at the Louvre in Paris, shows a scene from a Roman legend about the Horatii brothers.

1. Starry Night Over the Rhône
   Olympia
2. The Sleepers
   Disciples Peter and John Running to Sepulcher on the Morning of the Resurrection

The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulcher on the Morning of the Resurrection is an 1898 painting created by French artist Eugène Burnand. A deeply religious painting, The Disciples shows the events which occurred on the first Easter, when Jesus rose from his sepulcher, or tomb.

1. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
   Liberty Leading the People
2. The Gross Clinic
   The Lady of Shalott

Liberty Leading the People was created by Eugéne Delacroix to commemorate the French Revolution of 1830. The picture shows the Goddess of Liberty, holding the French flag and leading the people forward.

1. Café Terrace at Night
   Angelus
2. The Ninth Wave
   The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

The Angelus, also called L’Angélus, is an oil on canvas painting by Jean-François Millet, painted between 1857 and 1859. This famous painting features two peasants, bowing in a field as they say the Angelus prayer. It is currently housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

1. Van Gogh self-portrait
   St. George and the Dragon
2. The Song of the Lark
   The Laughing Cavalier

The Song of the Lark was created by French artist Jules Breton in 1884. Currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, this realist painting shows a peasant woman holding a scythe as the sun rises in the background, and speaks to Breton's interest in rural life and positive religious themes. The famous novel by Willa Cather takes its name from this painting.

1. Bowl of Oranges
   Fruit Bowls
2. Paris Street in Rainy Weather
   Apples and Oranges

Paul Cézanne in "Apples and Oranges" used intense colors to change the art scene of the 20th century. Cézanne was revered by other artists as a master still life painter, but he was unappreciated by galleries at the time.

1. The Garden of Earthly Delights
   The Virgin with the Angels
2. Pollice Verso
   Foxes

The Virgin with the Angels was created by Adolphe-William Bouguereau in 1900. A very accomplished painter who often took on emotional and religious topics, Bouguereau was adored by the public but derided by critics of the time , who thought his work was too smooth and sentimental.

1. Las Meninas
   Last Supper
2. Dancers in Blue
   Large Bathers

Dancers is Blue is the name of a series painted by Degas in the late 19th century. He loved to paint ballet dancers and washerwomen because he loved painting fabrics and movement. This piece shows Degas' characteristic love of color and texture, and is currently on display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France.

1. Two Women Waltzing
   The School of Athens
2. Pilgrimage to Vythera
   The Fall of the Damned

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a post-Impressionist painter and printmaker. He created posters for the French nightclub Le Moulin Rouge, and also painted many of its patrons. In the 1880s, French lesbian women often gathered in Montmartre, where Le Moulin Rouge was located. Here, Toulouse-Lautrec captures two of them dancing.

1. Arnolfini Portrait
   The Raft of Medusa
2. The Astronomer
   Wave

The Raft of Medusa was completed by French artist and lithographer Théodore Géricault in 1819, when he was only 27 years old. The painting, an example of the Romantic style, captures a scene from the wreckage of the naval frigate Méduse, whose captain abandoned the crew and passengers to die. It brought Géricault much fame.

1. Bal du Moulin de la Galette
   The Lady with the Ermine
2. Impression, Sunrise
   Red Balloon

This Monet painting has been credited as giving the entire Impressionist movement its name. It depicts the port of Le Havre, the hometown of the artist, and is currently on display at Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. Some critics of the time hated Impression, Sunrise, comparing it unfavorably to wallpaper. Others claimed that through this piece, Monet had succeeded in offering a whole new way of seeing the world.

1. The Great Wave off Kanagawa
   The Ladies Waldegrave
2. The Birth of Venus
   Mont Sainte-Victoire

Mont Sainte-Victoire is a series by Cézanne, painted between 1904 and 1906. They portray the Montagne Sainte-Victoire, a mountain in the south of France with a rich mythology. Cézanne was obsessed with painting this mountain, which had a deep symbolic meaning for him.

1. Nighthawks
   Watson and the Shark
2. Tahitian Women on the Beach
   Large Seated Nude

Tahitian Women on the Beach was completed by French artist Paul Gauguin in 1891. The artist had traveled to Tahiti for a fresh start. At the time, Tahiti was under siege by Colonial influences. Perhaps inadvertently, Gauguin captures the sorrowful emotions of Tahitian women coping with this culture war.

1. Campbell's Soup Cans
   Stag Night at Sharkeys
2. The Basket of Apples
   A Friend in Need

The Basket of Apples is a still life oil by Cézanne, currently at the Art Institute of Chicago. Cézanne often painted apples, vowing to make this ordinary fruit an object of wonder to the art world through his portrayal of it. Some critics disliked this work for its odd angles, but it's pieces like this which made Cézanne the father of modern art.

1. La barque à Giverny
   Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
2. The Fisherwomen
   The Oath of Horatii

"La barque à Giverny" is another one of Claude Monet's creations. His water lilies are the most known of his paintings, but Monet also painted scenes of people.

1. The Last Judgement
   On the Beach, Sunset
2. The Avenue in the Rain
   Battle of Issus

On the Beach, Sunset is an oil on wood painting by the French artist Eugéne Boudin, painted in 1865. He was one of the first landscape painters to paint outdoors. He was known for working on the coast of Normandy, sometimes with other artists, including Monet.

1. The Ambassadors
   Flaming June
2. An Evening Out
   At the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted "At the Moulin Rouge" in the late 1800s. He is one of the best Post-Impressionist painters of his time but also was a printmaker, illustrator and draftsman. In this painting, he depicts himself in the background.

1. The Raft of the Medusa
   The Helping Hand
2. Annunciation
   Composition VIII

The Helping Hand, called “La Main Tendue” in French, is an 1881 painting by French painter Émile Renouf. The artist was not well known in France until he created this painting, which shows a grandfather and granddaughter, likely a fisherman from Renouf's native Honfleur.

1. Avenue de l’Opéra, Place du Theatre Francais. Misty
   Susan and the Elders
2. Place du Théâtre-Francais and the Avenue de l’Opéra, Sunlight, Winter Morning
   Dance at the Moulin de la Galette

Camille Pissaro was a Post-Impressionistic and and Impressionistic painter. Alongside friends Monet and Cézanne, Pissarro exhibited his works at the Exhibition of Rejects, or "Salon des Refusés". This painting, "Place du Théâtre-Francais and the Avenue de l’Opéra, Sunlight, Winter Morning" is one of a series of cityscapes in different times of day and various weathers.

1. Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
   Pietà
2. Primavera
   Portrait of a Gentleman Skating

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is actually a poster, created by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1891. It's an advertisement for Le Moulin Rouge, a nightclub that Toulouse-Lautrec created posters for (he also painted many of its patrons). Poster-making was looked down on at the time; this work made Toulouse-Lautrec famous, and showed critics that posters could also be art. The flat washes of color and graphic qualities of the poster come from Toulouse-Lautrec's study of Japanese prints.

1. The Thinker
   The Hay Wain
2. Mars and Venus Allegory of Peace
   Young Girl Reading

Young Girl Reading, also called The Reader, is a 1770 Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Purchased by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., this painting features Fragonard's signature Rococo style, which emphasized feminine details, delicate colors and loose yet detailed brushwork. Not fully appreciated in his time, Fragonard is now considered one of France's most important artists.

1. Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
   Saturn Devouring His Son
2. Supper at Emmaus
   Lake Geneva at Sunset

Sunset on Lake Geneva was created by French painter Gustave Courbet in 1876. Currently on display at the Kunstmuseum in Saint-Gall, this painting was created while the artist was exiled in Switzerland.

1. The Old Guitarist
   The Boat Trip
2. The Swing
   Feast of the Rosary

The Swing, which is sometimes called “The Happy Accidents of the Swing”, was painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the late 18th century. Considered to be one of the great masterpieces of the Rococo era, the picture was condemned as frivolous by critics, because it shows a young man peeping up the skirt of his female companion as she's pushed by an innocent bystander. Look closely, and you'll see her garter belt.

1. Leading the Tropics
   The Equatorial Jungle
2. Sleeping Venus
   Hunters in the Jungle

From the looks of this painting "The Equatorial Jungle", you may assume painter Henri Rousseau was well-traveled. In actuality, he never left France, but was known for his tropic scenes. He was told in his time that he painted like a child.

1. Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
   The Death of Marat
2. Adoration of the Magi
   The Bath

The Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, which translates to Bal du Moulin de la Galette, depicts a Sunday afternoon at this popular dancing locale. Painted by Renoir on the spot, this painting shows working-class Parisians relaxing and dancing after a week of work.

1. Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
   The Portrait of a Young Man
2. Bar at the Folies-Bergère
   The Raft of Medusa

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is an oil on canvas painting which was created by Édouard Manet in 1882. Currently on display at the Courtauld Gallery in London, this painting depicts a scene from the Folies-Bergère nightclub in Paris.

1. The Garden Music
   The Wedding at Cana
2. Fort Vimieux
   Music in the Tuileries

Edouard Manet painted "Music in the Tuileries" as his first major city life piece. The people in the garden are some of his friends and family, including his brother.

1. Blue Nude
   Poppy Field near Argenteuil
2. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholeas Tulp
   The Japanese Bridge

The Poppy Field near Argenteuil is an oil painting painted by Claude Monet in 1875. It's one of four similar paintings created by the artist, which were all views of the plain of Gennevilliers in southeast Argenteuil, where he had settled with his family.