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Bearded elderly man in blue and ochre robes kneels in prayer, gazing upward, with keys at his side and a dark landscape behin

St. Peter Praying

Pier Francesco Mola, 1650

Oil portrait of an elderly man in glasses, grey moustache, and dark suit against a dark brushed background.

Edward Guthrie Kennedy

William Merritt Chase, ca. 1895

Painting of two seated men playing chess while a standing man watches, in a dim wood-paneled room with a red carpet and a cat

The Chess Players

Thomas Eakins, 1876

Painting of a woman in a classical draped robe holding a sword, with a Greek inscription reading Melpomene at upper left.

Melpomene

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Painting of a bearded man in a straw hat and dark coat, turned toward the viewer against a dark background.

Gustave Boyer (b. 1840) in a Straw Hat

Paul Cézanne, 1870-71

Half-length portrait of a man in black velvet and white lace collar, holding a dated letter against a dark background.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683)

Philippe de Champaigne, 1655

Still life painting of a bouquet of mixed flowers in a glass vase on a dark ledge, with a butterfly beside a pink rose.

A Bouquet of Flowers in a Crystal Vase

Nicolaes van Verendael, 1662

Young man in a feathered hat playing a lute, with pink sleeves and an open book beside him against a dark background.

Lute Player

Valentin de Boulogne, ca. 1625-26

Armored knight on white horse with raised sword fights skeleton, demons and hourglass-bearing figure beneath an angel holding

Knight Vanquishing Time, Death, and Monstrous Demons

Philips Wouwerman, 1662

Dark interior painting of a seated woman in a white gown, head bowed, lit by a single candle at right.

Forsaken

Gilbert Stuart Newton

Painting of an elderly man with a full white beard and tousled white hair against a dark background.

George Fuller

John Joseph Enneking, 1880

Black and white view of a 1830 portrait of a seated man with tousled hair, dark coat and white cravat.

Man with a Watch Fob

Samuel Lovett Waldo, 1830

Oil portrait of a smiling man with reddish hair in a dark coat and white ruffled cravat against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Karl Gottlieb Schweikart, 1812

Oil portrait of a bearded man in armour and fur cloak holding a gilded mace, with a stormy sea behind him.

Hetman Stefan Czarniecki

Leon Kapliński, 1863

Back view of a seated female nude on a purple drape against a dark background, painted in 1907.

Female Nude

Leon Wyczółkowski, 1907

Illustration of a cylindrical space colony with habitat modules and a long extended arm against a starry black background.

Exterior View of Colony

NASA Ames Research Center, 1975

Dark painting of an angel swooping down to restrain a man in a red cloak beside a kneeling, partly nude woman.

The Sacrifice of Abraham

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1690

Dim interior with a string quartet playing before an audience, candles glowing in the background, loose painterly brushwork.

The Neruda Quartet, showing some of the spectators to the left. Study

P.S. Krøyer, 1886

Painting of a young man with long hair, holding a walking staff and dark hat, wearing ragged clothes, seated on a stone ledge

Young Beggar

Giacomo Francesco Cipper

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and white collar against a dark brown background.

Portrait of Louis A. Kiefer

John Washington Love

Saint James the Less

after Sir Anthony van Dyck, after 1660

Painting of two boxers grappling in a ring while a crowd of excited spectators watches from ringside in darkness.

Both Members of This Club

George Bellows, 1909

Profile Portrait of a Boy

Unknown artist, c. 1460/1470

William Henry Vining

George M. Miller, c. 1810

Night scene of a campfire among tall pines beside a lake, with figures gathered around the fire and tipis nearby.

Bivouac of a Sioux War Party

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Night scene on a river: a figure in a canoe with a raised spear beside a torch, against dark dense jungle foliage.

Spearing by Torchlight on the Amazon

George Catlin, 1854/1869

Portrait of Adolphe Marlet

Gustave Courbet, 1851

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a white shirt, black cravat and dark jacket against a brown background.

Portrait de Jules Janin (1804-1874), écrivain et critique

Emile Champmartin, 1839

Oil portrait of a man with light hair and blue eyes in a striped orange waistcoat and blue-striped cravat against a dark back

Portrait de Jean-Louis Laya (1761-1833), auteur dramatique

Louis Landry, 1795

Painting of a blonde woman in a fur-trimmed striped dress holding pearls, with a small white dog beside her.

"Splendeur"

Ernest Ange Duez, 1874