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Portrait of a woman in black gown with white ruff collar, lace cap, gold embroidery and a handkerchief against a dark backgro

Portrait of a Lady

Nicolaes Eliaszoon Pickenoy, 1633

Painting of Dalila cutting the hair of the sleeping Samson, with soldiers lurking in the background.

Dalila cortando el pelo a Sansón

Luciano Borzone, 1600

Seated woman in blue silk gown with lace, beside a gilded commode, framed miniature portrait, marble bust and guitar.

Marie-Thérèse de Savoie, comtesse d'Artois (1756-1805)

Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, 1775

Painting of a barefoot friar holding a lily and a book with the Christ Child standing on it, against a dark background.

San Antonio de Padua

Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra, 1645

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark uniform with gold epaulettes and many medals against a dark background.

Portrait of Admiral N.K. Krabbe

Ivan Tyurin, 1874

Old woman in a white headcloth combing a boy's hair in a dim interior with a window, barrel, and pewter jug.

Old woman combing a boy's hair

Gerrit Dou, 1646

Young blonde woman in blue dress writes on a slate while reading a notebook, before a dark wooden door.

Fleissig

Albert Anker, 1886

Painting of a man in black embracing a woman in white drapery in a dark tomb, with a hooded figure in the background.

Delacroix - Roméo et Juliette au tombeau des Capulets, Vers 1850

Eugène Delacroix, 1850

Night Nativity painting: Mary bends over the infant Christ in a manger, with an ox, praying angels and shepherds under a star

The Nativity at Night

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, 1490

Portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and green dress holding a quill over paper at a draped table, dark background.

Maria Luisa di Borbone, Princess of the Two Sicilies

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1790

Interior of a Gothic church with ribbed vaults, carved columns, and worshippers in period dress near an altar.

Das Innere der Stephanskirche in Wien

Max Emanuel Ainmiller, 1848

Painting of two women in dark dresses standing close together against a muted grey-green background, both gazing to the right

The Sisters

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1884

Folding fan painting in ink showing bamboo stalks and rocks beside a stream, with calligraphy and a red seal at left.

Bamboo and Rocks by a Stream

Takaku Aigai, 1832

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled hair, black dress, white lace collar, and gold frame.

Portrait of a Woman

John Wesley Jarvis, 1810

Bust-length portrait of a woman with curly dark hair, white dress, patterned shawl and red ribbon with gold brooch.

Portrait of S. A. Rayevskaya

Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1813

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man with a mustache, seated in a dark suit with hands clasped, in a gilt frame.

Sir Rickman John Godlee. Oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon after a photograph

Harry Herman Salomon

Seated elderly ecclesiastic in black robes with a feathered hat, holding a book and quill beside a crucifix and scroll.

Portrait of an Ecclesiastic

Juan de Valdés Leal, 1680

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a dark velvet dress and white lace collar against a red background.

Fanny Lewis (1790-1832)

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1830

Night painting of a woman embracing a rider on a galloping horse, surrounded by shadowy ghostly figures under a moonlit sky.

Lénore, les morts vont vite

Ary Scheffer, 1830

Painting of Saint Cecilia in a white turban and red dress, gazing upward while holding a violin and bow.

Saint Cecilia

Guido Reni, 1606

Oil portrait of a bald man in round glasses and dark clerical cassock with white collar, against a dark background.

Retrat del P. Eduardo Llanas

Cristòfol Montserrat i Jorba, 1921

Painting of red poppies and white daisies in a brown metal jug against a dark background.

Flowers: Poppies and Daisies

Odilon Redon, c. 1867

Painting of a dead hare and game birds with feathers on a dark ground, by Cornelis Lelienbergh, 1646.

Dode haas en gevogelte

Cornelis Lelienbergh, 1646

Dark vanitas still life with a skull, gold jeweled collar, ivy, scepter, books and a feather on stone ledges.

Vanitas

Evert Collier, 1661

Painting of a young male figure holding the severed head of a bearded giant, with a golden sword and red cloak beside him.

David with the Head of Goliath

Pietro Novelli, about 1630s

Double portrait of an elderly man in a white wig and a boy in a green jacket beside a table with a rolled paper.

Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey

Matthew Pratt, ca. 1772

Full-length portrait of a bearded man in red tunic, ermine robe and sash, holding a scepter beside a gilded table with a crow

King Edward VII (1841-1910)

Malcolm Stewart, 1902

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled dark hair, wearing a blue dress with white lace collar, in a gold frame.

Susanne Correy

James Peale, 1790

Painting of the Madonna and nude infant Christ stepping on a serpent, with Saint Anne in a turban beside them.

Madonna and Child with St. Anne

Caravaggio, 1605

Half-length portrait of a man in a black clerical habit against a dark background, with a gold Latin inscription above.

El padre Enrique Flórez

Andrés de la Calleja, 1750