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Seated woman in red skirt and white collar making lace with bobbins beside a stoneware jug in a dark interior.

Lace-Maker

Gabriel Metsu, 1629

Oil painting of three figures at a table with a lute and open book, a young man in a feathered hat at right.

Concert

Jan Cossiers, 1650

Oil portrait of a young man with curly golden hair in a dark satin jacket, resting an arm on a stone ledge.

Self-portrait

Anthony van Dyck, 1622

Half-length portrait of an elderly man with grey hair and beard against a dark background, painted in 1701.

Portrait of an Old Man

Balthasar Denner, 1701

Dim farmhouse interior with chickens, a rooster, pigeons, jugs, baskets and ladders in warm brown tones.

Inneres eines Bauernhaus mit Stillleben

Frans Rijckhals, 1638

Portrait of a man in a red cap and dark fur-collared coat, with a landscape view and castle through a window at left.

Bildnis des Konstanzer Bischofs Hugo von Hohenlandenberg

Meister vom Bodensee, 1502

Painting of a woman in a red headscarf seated in a dark rustic kitchen with shelves of dishes and a window to daylight.

Küche im Thomahaus zu Bernau

Eugen Bracht, 1860

Interior scene of people making music around a table, with a harp, lute, cello and violin, a greyhound and a red curtain.

Musikalische Unterhaltung

Johann Dallinger

Survivors clinging to wreckage in stormy waves beside a rocky coast, with dark clouds and seagulls overhead.

Schiffbruch an einer felsigen Küste

Eugène Isabey, 1837

Painted portrait of a woman in a black dress with a white ruffled collar against a dark brown background.

Bildnis einer Dame in schwarzem Kleid mit weißer Halskrause

Wilhelm Leibl, 1870

Dark interior with an old woman stirring a bowl by candlelight, a winged demon behind her, a skull and hourglass on the floor

Hexenküche

David Teniers d. J., 1645

Still life painting of a flower bouquet in a glass vase on an oval wooden box against a dark background.

Blumenstrauss auf einer Spanschachtel

Jacques Linard, 1640

Painting of a man and a crouching milker beside a brown cow with a white face, a dog, and cattle in a rocky landscape.

Die Kuhmelkerin

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Painting of a hanging garland of roses, carnations, morning glories and berries against a dark background.

Blumengewinde

Nicolaes van Verendael

Still life of grapes in a wicker basket and peaches on a stone ledge, with vine leaves against a dark background.

Stillleben mit Trauben und Pfirsichen

Nicolas de Largillière, 1680

Night river landscape with a full moon, figures around a campfire beside boats, and a distant church spire.

Mondscheinlandschaft mit Fischern am Lagerfeuer

Ferdinand Kobell

Painting of an old woman working by a hearth beside a table with raw meat, pewter jug, copper pot and candle.

Old woman in the pantry

David Ryckaert III, 1647

Ziege

Half-length portrait of a smiling man in a green jacket and red cap holding a palette and brushes against a dark background.

Portrait of the battle painter August Querfurt (1696-1761)

Franz Sebald Unterberger, 1752

Half-length portrait of a man in a black hat, gold brocade doublet and blue cloak against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Jan Gossaert, 1525

Painting of a bloodied man in a white robe lying on dark barren ground under a dim, cloudy dusk sky.

Saint Stephen

Constantin Meunier, 1867

Painting of a reclining martyr holding a cross in a dim chamber, with an arena crowd visible through an open gate.

A Christian Martyr

Ernest Slingeneyer, 1860

Oil portrait of a seated man with grey hair looking upward beside a desk with music sheets and books.

Portrait of Giovanni Paisiello

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1791

Interior scene with card players on a checkered marble floor, a seated woman in red and a standing man, with a boy in blue at

Card players in a decorated interior

Pieter de Hooch, 1663

Virgin Mary in blue mantle cradles the dead Christ draped in white cloth, with crown of thorns in the foreground.

Pietà

Charles Le Brun, 1643

Elderly scientist in a dark coat works at a crowded laboratory bench among glass flasks, a microscope, and colored chemicals.

In the Laboratory

Henry Alexander, ca. 1885-87

Grayscale portrait of a seated woman in a sheer ruffled gown against a dark wooded landscape with a waterfall.

Mrs. James Clinton Griswold

Charles Loring Elliott, 1854

Monochrome painting of a young woman in a white gown holding flutes and resting a hand on a lyre, labeled Euterpe.

Euterpe

Joseph Fagnani, 1869

Full-length portrait of two children, a boy in a dark suit and a girl in white, with a red cardinal and strawberries.

Edward and Sarah Rutter

Joshua Johnson, ca. 1805

Oval portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, turned to the right against a dark background.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1775