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Anonymous, French School, Screen of the Independence (gif of painting executed c. 1781-89; includes depictions of La Fayette, Washington, Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Franklin)
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii (gif of David's 1785 painting)
Antoine-Jean Gros, General Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcola (gif of painting executed in 1796 and exhibited at the 1801 Salon)
Gros Antoine-Jean Baron (Napoleon's official war painter; trained by David)
Jacques-Louis David (brief info on the Napoleonic-era artist)
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (brief info about the French-Revolutionary and Napoleonic painter)
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Portrait of Sant-Just (gif of 1793 painting)
The Reign of Louis XVI (1774-1791) (background info with links to paintings from the era)
The Revolution (1789-1799) (background info with links to paintings of the era)
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France (gif of painting exhibited at the 1785 Salon by Vigée-Lebrun, popular French woman painter and friend of the Queen; reputed to have painted Marie-Antoinette 25 times)
Pierre Alexandre Wille, French Patriotism, or The Departure (gif of 1785 paitning by Greuze's pupil; the sculpted bust to which the father points represents Louis XVI)