Léon’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Waterfalls of Tivoli, plate eighteen from Italie Monumentale et Pittoresque
Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active 1827-1887) after Nicolas Chapuy (French, 1790-1858) printed by Lemercier (French, 19th century)

Terni: Marble Falls, plate twenty from Italie Monumentale et Pittoresque
Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active 1827-1887) after Nicolas Chapuy (French, 1790-1858) printed by Lemercier (French, 19th century)

Bota-Fogo, plate 11 from Landscapes, volume 1 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active c. 1827 – 1887) after Johann Moritz Rugendas (German, 1802-1858) printed by Gottfried Engelmann (French, 1788-1839)

View of the Church of Landrecies, taken from the Great Tower of the Arsenal, on the Ramparts
Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active 1827-1887) figures by Victor Adam (French, 1801-1866) printed by Pierre Langlumé (French, active 1822-1840)

General View of Lille, taken from the Roubaix Road
Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (French, active 1827-1887) printed by Pierre Langlumé (French, active 1822-1840)

Disembarkation, plate two from Customs and traditions of Negroes, volume 4 of Voyage pittoresque dans le Brésil
Isidore Laurent Deroy (French, 1797-1886) and Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (active. c. 1827 – 1887) after Johann Moritz Rugendas (German, 1802-1858) printed by Gottfried Engelmann (French, 1788-1839)

Remembrance of Italy
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875) printed by Auguste Delâtre (French, 1822-1907) published by Cadart et Chavalier, Editeurs (French, 1801-1900)

Souvenir of Tuscany
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot French, 1796-1875

The Elephant, from The Berain Grotesques Series
After a design by Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699) in the style of Jean I Berain (1640–1711); border design by Jean I Berain Woven at the Manufacture Royale de Beauvais under the direction of the Behagle family (directors, 1684–1711), the Filleul brothers (codirectors, 1711–22), or Noël-Antoine Mérou (director, 1722–33) France, Beauvais

Interrupted Reading
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

A Mounted Officer
Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille (French, 1848–1912)

Still Life with Monkey, Fruits, and Flowers
Jean Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686–1755)

Chariot Race
Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

Fables choisies (volumes 1 and 2)
Illustrations designed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (French, 1686-1755) written by Jean de la Fontaine (French, 1621–1695) engravings by Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790), Nicolas-Gabriel Dupuis (French, 1698–1771), Dominique Sornique (French, 1708–1756), Pierre François Tardieu (French, 1711–1771), René Gaillard (French, c. 1719–1790), Pierre Chenu (French, c. 1718-c. 1800), Michel Aubert (French, 1700-1757), Jean Charles Baquoy (French, 1721-1777), Pierre-Étienne Moitte (French, 1722-1780), Etienne Fessard (French, 1714-1777), Jean Ouvrier (French, 1725-1754), Claude Olivier Galimard (French, 1719-1774), Jean-Jacques Flipart (French, 1719-1782), Nicolas Dauphin de Beauvais (French, c. 1687-1763), Louis-Claude Legrand (French, 1723–1807), Pierre Quentin Chedel (French, 1705-1763), Pierre Aveline (French, 1702-1760), Jacques Philippe Le Bas (French, 1707–1783), Pieter Franciscus Martenisie (Flemish, 1729-1789), Laurent Cars (French, 1699-1771), Jean Pelletier (French, born c. 1736), Pierre Louis de Surugue (French, 1716-1772), Jacques-Jean Pasquier (French, 1718-1785), Johann Christoph Teucher (German, c. 1716-c. 1750), Juste Chevillet (German, 1729-1790), Johann Heinrich Rode (German, 1727-1759), Élie du Mesnil (French, born 1726), Martin Marvie (French, 1713-1813), Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (French, 1731-1797), William Wynne Ryland (British, 1732-1783), Jacques Aliamet (French, 1726-1788), Noël Le Mire (French, 1724-1801), Louis-Simon Lempereur (French, 1728-1807), and Antoine Radigues (French, 1721-1809) wood engravings by Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691–1764) after illustrations designed by Jean Jacques Bachelier (French, 1724-1806) printed by Charles-Antoine Jombert (French, 1712–1784) published by Desaint et Saillant (French, 18th century) and Durand (French, 18th century)

Anacreon with the Infants Bacchus and Cupid
Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia
Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar (French, 1762–1834)

Jean-Baptiste Belley
Attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson French, 1767-1824

Cupid and Psyche
Jean Baptiste Regnault (French, 1754–1829)

Landscape
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)

Wounded Eurydice
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875)