Jacques-Louis David
(30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) 

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David

Portrait of Madame Récamier
1800 
Oil on canvas
173 × 243 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059215

 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
 (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867)

 

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres

 

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
1805 
Oil on canvas
100 x 122 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059995

 Eugene Delacroix
(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix  was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime" of nature in often violent action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Self-portrait with Green Vest
c. 1837 
Oil on canvas
65 x 54.5 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059698

 Simon Vouet
(9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649)

Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."
A major international exhibition of Vouet's work is planned for 2027, co-organized by the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris and the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Vouet

Portrait of Giovan Carlo Doria
1621 
Oil on canvas
129 x 95 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl01006310

Tintoretto
(October 1518 – 31 May 1594)

 

 Jacopo Robusti best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticised the speed with which he painted and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso (Italian for 'the Furious'). His work is characterised by muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto

 

Self Portrait
c. 1588 
Oil on canvas
62.5 x 52 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062253

Titian

(c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576)

 

Tiziano Vecellio  Latinized as Titianus, hence known in English as Titian, was an Italian Renaissance painter. The most important artist of Renaissance Venetian painting, he was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno.
Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of colour, exerted a profound influence not only on painters of the late Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titian

Man with a Glove
c. 1520-22 
Oil on canvas
100 x 89 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062290

 Jacob van Loo
(1614 – 26 November 1670)

Jacob van Loo was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, chiefly active in Amsterdam and, after 1660, in Paris. Van Loo is known for his conversational groupings; particularly his mythological and biblical scenes generally attributed to the genre of History painting. He was especially celebrated for the quality of his nudes to the extent that, during his lifetime, particularly his female figures were said to have been considered superior and more popular than those of his Amsterdam contemporary and competitor Rembrandt. Unlike Rembrandt, he drew these nudes on blue paper. In 1663, three years after fleeing to Paris, Jacob van Loo was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Loo

Portrait of Michel Corneille the Elder
c. 1662
Oil on canvas
116 x 86.7 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010061645