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Crowd of 19th-century promenaders in a sunlit gravel alley framed by dark trees, with a pale pavilion at the far end.

L'allée des Feuillants, aux Tuileries, sous le Second Empire

Eugène Grandsire, 1860

Dark workshop interior with timber roof, glowing fire, workers, and rows of clay pots on shelves.

Intérieur d'un atelier

Pierre-Antoine Demachy, 1777

Oil portrait of an elderly man with long white hair, dark coat and white collar, against a brown background.

Portrait de Charles Philipon (1800-1862), dessinateur et journaliste

Gustave Doré, 1860

Night painting of the illuminated Hôtel de Ville in Paris with a crowd in the square and a moon behind clouds.

Illumination de l'Hôtel de Ville pour la fête du roi, le 1er mai 1847

Auguste Roux, 1847

Painting of a reclining man in a pink coat gazing at a standing woman in a white ruffled dress beside green drapery.

Le Carquois épuisé

Pierre Antoine Baudouin

Eighteenth-century garden scene of figures playing a board game at a table beneath trees, one woman in yellow and another hol

La Partie de dames

Michel Barthélémy Ollivier, 1765

Painted half-length portrait of a bearded man in a gray suit holding a cigarette, resting his hand on a chair.

Portrait de Monsieur Léon Pissard jeune

Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1895

Seated elderly woman in black dress holding a small white dog beside a vase of flowers, in an ornate gilded frame.

Portrait de Madame Emile Blanche, mère de l'artiste

Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1893

Oil portrait of a young child in a plaid suit with a spaniel dog beside a red velvet chair on a patterned rug.

Portrait présumé de Vittoria Balze

Jean-Paul-Etienne Balze, 1845

Painting of a monk offering communion to a reclining woman supported by a kneeling man in a rocky cave at dusk.

La communion d’Atala

Pierre-Jérôme Lordon, 1808

Portrait of a young man in black dress with white ruff, holding a sword hilt beside a table with a black cap.

Ferdinand II of Habsburg as a young man

Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1595

Portrait of a woman in black dress with white lace collar and pearls, before a dark fleur-de-lis background.

Anne of Austria, Queen of France

Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

Painting of hanging grape bunches, three pale and one dark blue, on a vine branch with leaves against a black background.

Four Bunches of hanging Grapes

Juan Fernández el Labrador, 1636

Painting of a bearded man with a crown of thorns, head bowed, wearing a red cloak against a dark background.

Ecce Homo

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1660

Portrait of a woman in a red velvet gown with three boys beside her against a dark background.

Portrait of Camilla Gonzaga and Her Three Sons

Parmigianino, 1539

Portrait of a nun in a brown habit praying with clasped hands beside a draped altar and crucifix.

La infanta Sor Margarita de la Cruz, archiduquesa de Austria

Matías de Torres, 1650

Portrait of a woman in black with a white ruff and gold necklaces against a red damask curtain.

Archduchess Maria of Bavaria, Duchess of Styria

Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1608

Painting of a haloed friar holding an IHS banner, standing over demons and falling figures with a burning city behind him.

Saint John of Capistrano

Alonso del Arco

Full-length painting of a standing man in a long brown monastic habit with a cord belt, against a dark background.

El actor José Riquelme en "El famoso Colirón"

Salvador Viniegra, 1904

Deathbed scene in a dark room: a child kisses a figure under white drapery while mourners and a cardinal in red stand nearby.

el Último Beso

Juan Antonio Benlliure, 1887

Painting of Saint Francis of Assisi in a grey hooded habit gazing upward in ecstasy against a dark rocky background.

Saint Francis of Assisi in ecstasy

Portrait of a seated man in black academic gown and red hood, with a Gothic stone building visible through a window behind hi

Moses Taylor Pyne, Class of 1877 (1855-1921)

William Sartain

Painting of a nude youth asleep on red drape while a crescent-moon goddess gazes from a cloud, with cupids and dogs.

Diana and Endymion

Sebastiano Ricci

Seated man in a dark suit in a leather armchair before bookshelves, painted portrait by Hubert Vos, 1905.

Judge William Butler Hornblower (1851-1914)

Hubert Vos, 1905

Painting of a sleeping infant in white clothing on white linen, with straw and a dark background, by Bartholomeus van der Hel

A child's deathbed portrait

Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1645

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig, blue velvet mantle, gold chain and lace cravat against a dark background.

William, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765)

Joshua Reynolds, 1764

Painting of a woman in red beside a man holding a severed head on a platter, with a carved figure below.

Salome

Cesare da Sesto, 1500

Dim painting of Venus embracing Cupid, with a bow and quiver in the foreground and a dark landscape behind.

Venus and Cupid

Full-length portrait of a young boy in a dark slashed doublet, lace collar and cuffs, beside a red-draped table.

Portrait of Sir Peter Courten (1599-1624)

Salomon Mesdach, 1617

Painting of a kneeling man in a fur-trimmed robe praying while attendant men stand in a dim interior.

Het laatste gebed van Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

Simon Opzoomer, 1840