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Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black robe holding a paper, with an hourglass and a landscape view behind him.

Portrait of a Man

Moretto da Brescia, ca. 1520-25

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel reaches toward the Virgin Mary in a red dress while a dove and a child appear above.

The Annunciation

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Three children in a wooded setting: a boy in green riding a brown horse, another boy beside it, and a girl in white.

The Drummond Children

Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808-9

Oil portrait of a man in a wide black hat and white ruff collar, looking over his shoulder against a dark background.

Herman Doomer (ca. 1595-1650)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Painting of a nude woman bathing at a stone pool while a servant combs her hair and an attendant tends her foot, with a peaco

The Toilet of Bathsheba

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1643

Seated woman in silk gown holds a palm frond and looks up at a white dove in a dim prison interior.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Prison

Paolo Veronese, ca. 1585

Oil portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and ruff holding a small balance scale against a dark background.

Portrait of a Woman with a Balance

Thomas de Keyser, ca. 1625-26

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a brown cloak holding a small white dog against a dark background.

An Old Man with a Dog

Giacomo Ceruti, 1740s

Standing friar in a pale hooded habit with knotted cord gazes upward within a dark arched niche, casting a shadow on the wall

Saint Francis

Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640

Oval portrait of a man in a powdered wig, brown coat and white neckband against a dark background.

Judge Edmund Quincy

John Smibert, 1737

Painting of the dead Christ on a tomb, mourned by the Virgin Mary and other figures, with thorns and nails in the foreground.

Lamentation of Christ

Frans Francken I

Painting of an elderly bearded man with a bald head and bare shoulders against a dark red background.

Bust of an Old Man (Head of a Beggar)

Pietro Bellotti

Painting of a seated musician playing a lute while a bearded older man holds an open book in a dim wooden interior.

Bandura Player with a Jew

Michał Stachowicz

Painting of torch-lit figures, a boat on an underground pool, and ladders climbing the walls of a salt mine cavern.

Pond in the Salt Mine at Wieliczka

Teodor Baltazar Stachowicz

Small dark landscape painting with red-orange sunset clouds above a silhouetted tree line.

Sunset

Albert Chmielowski

Candlelit interior: a woman in a rose gown sealing a letter at a table while a uniformed man watches from the doorway.

Sealing a letter with wax

Willem Thans, 1852

Painting of a woman with long red hair embracing a dark bowed figure against a swirling blue background.

Vampire

Edvard Munch, 1893

Painting of a dramatic male figure in blue tunic and red breeches lunging forward with a raised fist beside a fur-draped couc

Richard III

Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

Painting of a woman in a red bodice, patterned shawl and black skirt against a dark green background.

Portrait of Mari Clasen

Halfdan Egedius, 1895

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man with white hair in a dark suit against a dark background, painted in 1903.

Portrait of William J. Holliday

Theodore Clement Steele, 1903

Painting of a seated woman with a pruning knife beside an old woman in a red headscarf, with fruit, plants and a gourd in a g

Vertumnus and Pomona

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, 1669

Oil portrait of a woman with tall feathered hair and pearl-trimmed pale dress against a dark background.

Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1776/1777

Full-length portrait of a boy in a fur hat and fur-trimmed cloak holding a kolf stick, with a ball on the floor.

Moses ter Borch Holding a Kolf Stick

Gesina ter Borch, c. 1655

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, hand to his head, with an open book and quill pen on a table.

Robert Walsh

Thomas Sully, 1814

Half-length portrait of an older man with powdered white hair, dark coat and white cravat before a dark green background.

James Madison

Gilbert Stuart, c. 1821

Oil portrait of a woman in a high-necked black dress and shawl against a dark red background, by William Orpen.

Portrait of Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Dramatist and Folklorist

William Orpen, 1904

Painting of nude Venus with a gold chain necklace holding hands with winged Cupid who holds a bow, on a dark background.

Venus and Cupid

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1537

Painting of a man in a blue tunic lunging forward with a spear beside a fur-draped bench in a dark room.

Richard III terrified by nightmarish visions. Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 9,

Nicolai Abildgaard

Half-length portrait of a man in a black hat and fur collar holding a golden rosary, with a green curtain and landscape.

Portrait of a Man - Portrait of a Gentleman with a Rosary

Lorenzo Lotto, 1515

Oval oil portrait of a dark-haired man with a mustache, turned to the side against a dark background, with cracked paint.

Portrait d'homme

Louis Boulanger, 1840