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Assignat note for 50 sols

From 1789, the new revolutionary government of France tried …
Bronze medal of George Washington, by Pierre Simon Duvivier

In March 1776, the Congress of the thirteen colonies that we…
Cast bronze medal of Baron Justus von Liebig, by David d'Angers

Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-73) was a scientist who pionee…
Copper 5 sols issued by the Monneron Brothers

The French Revolution of 1789-1792 was a turning point in Eu…
Gold franc-à-cheval of John II, king of France

This coin, the first French franc, owes its name to the poli…
Gold pavillon of Philip VI

France was the first kingdom in western Europe to introduce …
Medal of St Christopher

St Christopher is unlikely to have existed as a historical f…
Pewter medal of the storming of the Bastille and the Return of Louis XVI to Paris, by Bertrand Andrieu

Dissemination of 'propaganda' during the French Revolution w…
Silver 2 franc coin of Napoleon I

In the wake of the French Revolution (1789-92), a Republican…
Silver medal of the Execution of Marie Antoinette, by Heinrich Conrad Küchler

An Austrian princess, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was never…
Diptych Dial

Diptych dials are portable instruments, usually made from iv…
Dr Woodward's shield

According to tradition, this embossed iron buckler was disca…
Gold hair ornament or brooch

The ornament is made from three-coloured gold set with diamo…
Antoine Watteau, Five studies of a seated woman seen from behind, a drawing

The studies are drawn from life in red chalk. The drawing wa…
Antoine Watteau, Four studies of a young woman's head, a drawing

These studies are drawn from a live model. Watteau has used …
Antoine Watteau, Studies of a flute-player and two women, a drawing

On the left of this drawing Watteau is concerned with the de…
Antoine Watteau, Study for the Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, a drawing

This is drawn in Watteau's typical technique of three colour…
Antoine Watteau, Three studies of open hands, a drawing

The hands are clearly drawn from life, in light but persiste…
Antoine Watteau, Woman in a striped Dress, a drawing

This drawing is done in red and black chalks with pencil. Al…
Camille Pissarro, Passage en Long ('Horizontal landscape'), an etching with aquatint

Known primarily as a painter, Pissarro (1830-1903) was a pro…
Edgar Degas, Dancers Practising at the Barre, a study in oil paint on green paper

During his lifetime Degas (1834-1917) depicted many scenes f…
Edgar Degas, Le Sommeil (Sleep), a monotype

Degas (1834-1917) took up monotype printing in 1874-75, afte…
Edouard Manet, Les Courses, a lithograph

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is sometimes called the first Mode…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Jockey, a lithograph

This was one of Toulouse-Lautrec's last lithographs. The pub…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Miss Loie Fuller, a lithograph

Loie Fuller (1864-1901) was an American dancer who came to p…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Woman at the Tub, a lithograph

The Elles suite is Toulouse-Lautrec's greatest lithographic …
Honoré Daumier, Street Scene with a Mountebank Playing a Drum, a drawing in pen and watercolour over black chalk

This is one of the most famous drawings by Daumier (1808-79)…
Jean Duvet, The Apocalypse, Chapters Four and Five, an engraving

The figures in this crowded composition are all described in…
Jean Morin, Memento Mori (The Skull), an etching after Philippe de Champaigne

A Memento Mori is literally a 'reminder of death'. The clock…
Jean-Francois Janinet, Marie Antoinette, a print after Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) married Louis XVI in 1770 and b…
Nicolas Poussin, Self-portrait, a red chalk drawing

The long inscription in Italian below the drawing was writte…
Odilon Redon, La Cellule d'Or, a drawing in oil and metallic paint

This is one of Redon's (1840-1916) most famous coloured past…
Odilon Redon, The Spider, a lithograph

Apart from some unsuccessful early attempts at landscape pai…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Nude Woman Sitting, Drying her Right Foot, a red and white chalk drawing

Renoir (1841-1919) began his career as a painter of porcelai…
Pierre-Imbert Drevet, Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, an engraving

The steady demand for engraved portraits of men prominent in…
Rosso Fiorentino, Recumbent Female Nude Figure Asleep, a red, chalk drawing

This is one of the finest surviving examples of Rosso's red …
Marble figure of a victorious athlete

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Bronze nummus of Magnentius with Christogram

For most of the fourth century AD, Roman society was a curio…
Glass bottle in the form of a fish

This glass bottle was made by blowing into a mould. New type…
Apollo on Mount Helicon, an enamel painted dish signed by Susanne de Court

This oval dish, is painted in enamel on copper with the stor…
Palm cup

Feasting and drinking were important aspects of barbarian so…
Jacques Bellange, Standing Figure of a Young Woman, a pen and ink colour wash

Bellange (1575-1616) was court painter to Charles III, Duke …
Juste de Juste, Human Pyramids, an etching

This extraordinary etching (signed with a monogram) is one o…
Champollion's hieroglyphic hand

The young French scholar Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-183…
Base-silver radiate of Maximian

Roman coins stopped being used as official currency in Brita…
Brass sestertius of Nero

The emperor Nero is mostly remembered as the tyrannical empe…
Cast bronze medal of René de Birague by Germain Pilon

Germain Pilon (about 1525-90) was a monumental sculptor whos…
Cast bronze medallion of Henri IV and Marie de Medici, by Guillaume Dupré

The period preceding the coronation of Henri IV (1553-1610) …
Cast gunmetal medal of Louis XIV of France by Jean Warin

By 1665 Jean Warin, sculptor, medallist and controller of th…
Gold solidus of Theodobert I

After the fall of Rome in AD 476, the Eastern Roman Empire s…
Silver denarius of Augustus

Augustus, the first emperor of Rome (31 BC-AD 14), had no so…
Silver medal of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Battle of Waterloo, by Emile Rogat

The Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) was the final defeat o…
Silver penny of Charles II, 'the Bald'

The Frankish emperor Charlemagne (AD 768-814) created a huge…
50 livres note, Banque Royale

The first banknotes in France were issued by John Law, a sel…
Gaulish red slip pottery bowl

This fine tableware bowl is covered with decoration. A band …
Glass cremation urn

This glass vessel still contains cremated bones and a fragme…
Ivory bust of a charioteer

This figure is dressed in the thick, horizontally-banded tun…
Becket casket

This reliquary once held some of the remains of Archbishop T…
Rachid Koraïchi, Seven Doors of Heaven, metal

Rachid Koraïchi was born in 1947 in Algeria. He is from a Su…
Bréban grave group

The woman who was buried at Bréban, went to the grave in all…
Carillon clock with automata, by Isaac Habrecht

This clock is a magnificent example of the combined skills o…
Carriage clock by Breguet et Fils

Abraham Louis Breguet is said to have been the inventor of t…
Chatelaine plate

This copper-alloy plate, originally tinned to resemble silve…
Clock-watch with calendar and alarm by Jean Vallier

By the early seventeenth century, watchmaking in France had …
Double dial cylinder watch with equation of time and calendar dials by David Pons

This splendid example of an 'equation of time' watch has two…
Enamel casket

This is one of the earliest Limoges caskets made for secular…
Enamelled glass mosque lamp, by Philippe Joseph Brocard

In late nineteenth-century Europe, there was a great wave of…
Enamelled gold locket, by Henri Toutin

This virtuoso piece of enamelling is one of the earliest sig…

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