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Twelve works, the same twelve for everyone today and new ones tomorrow: from the best known to the ones only a devotee knows.
Best-known works
- “Fallen angel” — Alexandre Cabanel, 1847
- “Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)” — John Singer Sargent, 1884
- “Dante and Virgil in Hell” — William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850
- “The Execution of Lady Jane Grey” — Paul Delaroche, 1833
- “Pollice Verso” — Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872
- “Nero's Torches” — Henryk Siemiradzki, 1876
- “The Birth of Venus” — William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1879
- “The Birth of Venus” — Alexandre Cabanel, 1863
- “The Slave Market” — Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1866
- “Oedipus and the Sphinx” — Gustave Moreau, 1864
- “The Death of Socrates” — Jacques-Louis David, 1787
- “Nymphs and Satyr” — William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873