The history of French painting from the Middle Ages to the 19th century is overviewed here in sections devoted to the major schools: the French primitives, the Renaissance, painting under Louis XIII, the painters of Louis XIV, Watteau and his time, David and his pupils, Romanticism, toward realism… This lively and didactic CD-Rom, with commentaries by the museum's curators, features an index with ten different entries and a chapter called "Selection" which allows viewers to compile their own exhibitions.