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Oil portrait of an older bearded man in a black suit and bow tie against a dark background.

Minister Josef Lasser, Freiherr von Zollheim

August Georg Mayer, 1877

Portrait of a young man with curly hair in a dark military coat, silver epaulettes and red sash against a stormy background.

Portrait of Jean Terford David

Thomas Sully, 1813

Oil portrait of an elderly man with a full white beard in a dark coat against a dark brown background.

Joseph Wesley Harper, Jr.

Eastman Johnson, c. 1885

Still life painting of a flower bouquet in a pewter vase in a stone niche, with bread, cherries, wine glass and beetle.

Blumenstillleben in einer Nische

Georg Flegel, 1620

Painting of a solar eclipse with red hydrogen prominences and an inset panel labeled The Eagle Prominence.

The Eagle Prominence

Howard Russell Butler, 1918

Portrait of a man in a powdered wig and brown coat seated at a desk with letters, quill and inkwell.

Joshua Johnson

Charles Bird King, 1800

Oil painting of a smiling barefoot boy holding a crawfish, with a dog in his arm and a kitten watching in a dim barn.

Boy with a Crawfish

Nude woman with raised arms beside water under a red full moon, with two girls and a dark tree in a night landscape.

Full-Orbed Moon

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1901

Oil portrait of an older man in a dark naval uniform with gold epaulettes, a red sash and medals, against a dark background.

Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew

John Hayter, 1895

Still life painting of a dense bouquet of tulips, irises, peonies and roses on a dark background, spilling over a stone ledge

Vase of flowers

Rachel Ruysch, 1700

Seated man in a wig at a cluttered desk with books, papers, a quill, and a city map on the wall behind him.

Jan Wagenaar (1709-76). Stadshistorieschrijver van Amsterdam

Tibout Regters, 1761

Seated woman in black damask dress, large white ruff and lace cap, holding a white cloth against a dark background.

Portrait of a Lady

Frans Hals, 1627

Black-and-white style painting of elegant figures in a wooded landscape with a distant tower and cloudy sky.

Love in the Open Air

After Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, After c. 1731

Corot landscape with dark trees, a river reflecting pale sky, a seated woman on the bank and a rowboat with a figure.

Landscape

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865/70

Dark still life with a wine glass, fish on a pewter plate, bread, walnuts, onions, grapes and a red draped cloth.

Still life with a roemer, fish, bread, walnuts, onions and grapes on a dark cloth

Willem van Aelst, 1679

Still life of mackerel on cabbage leaves with a calico cat sniffing the fish and a kitten watching from behind a black pot.

Fish still life with two cats

Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1781

Still life with silver pitcher, lobster, grapes, melon and ham on a draped table against a dark background.

Still Life with a Silver Pitcher

Abraham van Beijeren, 1660

Painting of a woman in a red dress reaching for a glass as a man holds a plate of oysters beside a table.

Man offering oysters to a woman

Jacob Ochtervelt, 1667

Oval portrait of a man in black dress with a white lace ruff, hand raised at waist, within a gilded rosette frame.

Portret van een man

Adriaen van de Venne, 1615

Portrait of a young woman in a green gown with black ribbon choker and white feather in her hair, dark background.

Miss Walpole, Afterwards the Hon. Mrs. Keppel (one of pair)

Francis Cotes, 1736

Painting of a woman in a dark dress reading a letter at a dresser, with her reflection visible in a mirror behind her.

Grandmother’s Love Letters

Carroll Beckwith, 1895

Dark painted woodland scene with a winding light-catching path or river and a small figure in the distance.

Woodland and River Scene

Joshua Reynolds, 1723

Oil portrait of a seated woman in red brocade and black lace with a white bonnet, against a dark background.

Lady Dorothea Harrison (1702-1773)

Joshua Reynolds, 1758

Painting of a woman in a patterned silk robe holding a toddler who reaches toward her face, beside a lit oil lamp.

Maternity

Léon Bazille Perrault

White line drawing of a seated female nude on a solid black field, printed on cream paper with edition number 16/20.

Grande figure : [estampe] / Henri Matisse

Family group portrait of an elderly man with three young people against a dark background, painted in oil.

Portret Franciszka Matejki z trojgiem dzieci (od lewej: Kazimierz, Jan i Marianna)

Loose painting of a man in a black hat and costume standing in a red-walled room beside seated women in dark dresses.

Erinnerung an Velázquez

Edgar Degas, 1858

Still life painting of a newspaper, letter, quill pen, leather books and ink bottle on a marble ledge.

WiliamHarnett-Still Life w Letter Clarke 1879

William Harnett, 1879

Still life painting of a flower bouquet in a carved urn beside a basket of grapes and peaches on a draped table.

Bouquet of Flowers in a Terracotta Vase with Peaches and Grapes

Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1776

Painting of a nude shipwrecked man with a leafy branch facing a woman in yellow beside women washing cloth at a rocky stream.

Nausikaa bringer den skibbrudne Odysseus klæder

Wilhelm Marstrand, 1835