Francisco Goya
(30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and engravings reflected contemporary historical upheavals and influenced important 19th- and 20th-century painters. Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of Western art.

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

Young Woman with a Fan
1806-07
Oil on canvas 
103 x 126 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064756

Frans Hals
(c. 1582 – 26 August 1666)

Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.

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

Gypsy Girl
c. 1626 
Oil on wood
58 x 52 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010060266

 Rembrandt
(15 July 1606 - 4 October 1669)
 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.
Unlike most Dutch painters of the 17th century, Rembrandt's works depict a wide range of styles and subject matter, from portraits and self-portraits to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological subjects and animal studies. His contributions to art came in a period that historians call the Dutch Golden Age.

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

Autoportrait à la toque sur fond d'architecture
(Self-Portrait Wearing a Cap against an Architectural Background)
1634/1635
Oil on wood
80 x 62 cm 
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062021

 Johannes Vermeer
( October 1632 – 15 December 1675)

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

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

The Lacemaker
c. 1669-71 
Oil on canvas
24 × 21 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064918

 Domenico Ghirlandaio
(2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494)

 

Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi  professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli. 

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

 

An Old Man and His Grandson
c. 1490 
tempera on poplar panel 
62.7 x 46.3 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064987

Leonardo da Vinci
(15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci  was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.

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

Mona Lisa
c. 1503-06 
Oil on poplar panel
79.4 x 53.4 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062370 

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)  

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon.

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

The Coalmen
circa 1875
Oil on canvas
66 x 54 cm
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/les-dechargeurs-de-charbon-69336