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The Line of Saint Anne is a c.1500 oil-on-panel painting by the Netherlandish painter Gerard David, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, which acquired it in 1896. It shows the ancestors of Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, along the lines of a Tree of Jesse.
Jean-Michel Sanejouand was a French artist. His work ranged from environments to monumental sculptures, from readymade-like objects, to paintings of oneiric landscapes in which (usually) one of his sculptures stands.
Léonce Bénédite was a French art historian and curator. He was a co-founder of the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français and was instrumental in establishing Orientalist art as a legitimate genre.
Henri Guinier was a French portrait and landscape painter.
Jean Robiquet was a French art historian, art critic and curator. He was also a playwright and opérettes librettist known under the pseudonym Jean Roby.
Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz) (1905–1989) was a painter associated with the School of Paris. His early work was mostly figurative; much of his later work is inspired by the Bible, particularly the Book of Psalms.
Andrée Le Coultre was a French painter in the cubist tradition coached by Albert Gleizes. She was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland but spent her entire life in Lyon where her parents moved when she was an infant. She acquired French nationality in 1942 after her marriage to Paul Régny.
The Light of the World is a 1750 oil-on-canvas painting by François Boucher, now in the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon.
The Circumcision of Christ is a painting in oils on canvas executed in 1646 by the Italian artist Guercino. It depicts the Circumcision of Christ, and it was painted as the high altarpiece for a church in Bologna. It was originally surmounted by a semi-oval showing God the Father and the Holy Spirit; this is now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Three pen and brown ink studies for the work survive, two in the Royal Collection and one in the Pinacoteca di Brera. There are also two drawings of the Virgin's clothing. The painting is now held in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where it has been since 1811.
Corinne at Cape Misenum is an oil on canvas painting by François Gérard, created in 1919-1821. It depicts the title character from Corinne, an 1808 novel by Madame de Stael, at Cape Miseno. The painting is held now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
An Episode from the Russian Campaign is an 1836 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. It shows the retreat from Moscow in 1812 at the end of the French invasion of Russia.
Still Life with a Peacock is a 1714 oil on canvas painting by Alexandre-François Desportes, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Madame Guimard's furniture is a set of Art Nouveau bedroom furniture, designed from 1909 onwards by the Lyon-born architect Hector Guimard for his new wife, the American artist Adeline Oppenheim. They married in 1909, and the same year he bought a site at 122 Avenue Mozart in the 16th arrondissement of Paris to build a three-storey hôtel particulier, or mansion. When the site was sold in 1948, Madame Guimard gave the bedroom furniture to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, the desk to the musée de l'École de Nancy and the dining room furniture to the Petit Palais.
A Knight Preparing Himself for Combat, in French Un Chevalier se préparant au combat, is a c. 1805 painting by Fleury François Richard. According to the artist's description, the painting depicts a knight praying in the chapel of the Église Saint-Irénée de Lyon, which had been ruined by the Baron des Adrets in 1562.
A Nun Cares for a Soldier in a Cloister is an 1822 painting by Claudius Jacquand, which has been in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon since 2015. It is one of his earliest surviving works. The cloister is modelled on that at the palais Saint-Pierre in Lyon, which now houses the Museum of Fine Arts.
Madonna and Child with Angels or Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels is an oil-on-panel triptych painting by Quentin Matsys, executed c. 1509, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. The work, which was originally intended for private devotion, seems to echo the art of Jan van Eyck. The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon acquired it in 1859.
Madonna and Child with Saints is a c. 1545-1546 oil on canvas painting by Tintoretto, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Portrait of a Saxon Noblewoman is an oil on canvas painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder. It has been in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon since 1892.
Suzanne Estelle Apoil was a French porcelain painter and watercolorist.
National Museum Recuperation is the French state organization that manages the looted artworks recovered from Nazi Germany and returned to France after the Second World War. Of 61,000 looted artworks returned to France, 2143 remain in custody of the MNR.
Simone Boisecq was an Algerian-born French sculptor who worked in Algiers and Paris. Her work has been described a synthesis between abstraction and figuration.