Some standouts.

Not surprisingly, the Basilica of Notre Dame has featured in many paintings, most of them simply execrable.

The three which follow are by special, all by famous painters who were famous for a reason. They could paint.

David’s infamous portrait of Napoleon being crowned emperor, 1805.

Maximillien Luce made a pointilliste rendering in 1900.

Maurice Utrillo, famed painter of Montmartre, had a go in 1909.