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Still life painting of a dark-background bouquet of tulips, lilies and roses above grapes, with butterflies and a lizard.

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Ottmar Elliger, 1671

Oil painting of peasants dancing and feasting outdoors with dogs and a pig, beneath a cloudy sky and trees.

The Prodigal Son

Unknown artist, 1600 - 1699

Forest floor with mushrooms, cabbage leaves, birds, moths, a butterfly and a lizard painted in dark earthy tones.

Bosgrond met vogels, vlinders en een hagedis

Melchior d'Hondecoeter, 1668

Painting of a blacksmith in a red cap hammering metal at an anvil beside an assistant tending a fire in a dim forge.

The Weaponsmith

Gabriel Metsu, 1650

Oval miniature portrait of a mustached man in a fur-collared coat and tie, in an ornate gold frame with an eagle top.

President William Howard Taft

Alyn Williams, 1910

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black doublet and white lace ruff, against a dark brown oval background.

John Winthrop

John Winthrop, 1800

Oil portrait of a seated bald man in a dark suit holding a paper, against a brown background.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Walter Ingalls, 1870

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a dark brown background.

Lyman Beecher

James Henry Beard, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, seated beside an open book with a green drape behind him.

Valentine Mott

Valentine Mott, 1820

A Breton Sunday

Eugene Laurent Vail, 1890

Oval miniature portrait of a gentleman with powdered hair, dark coat and white cravat against a blue sky.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Walter Robertson, 1790

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with pink hair, blue coat with gold buttons, and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Josiah Hewes Anthony

James Peale, 1790

Oval miniature portrait of a man with light brown hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

David McClellan

Benjamin Trott, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair, dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Christopher Burdick

Christopher Burdick, 1830

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark curly hair in a navy coat with gold buttons and a white cravat.

T. Stanford

Ebenezer Mack, 1790

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and white cravat beside a wooden pedestal with a small sculpture.

Gaetano Trentanova

Filippo Costaggini, 1890

Painting of a nude man raising a staff beside two bearded older men in red and green robes against a dark background.

Moses, Aaron and Hur on Mount Horeb

William Page, 1850

Triangular painting of green and brown mountains with an arched tunnel, railway tracks and a winding path under a pale sky.

Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Oval miniature portrait of a gray-haired man in a green coat and white cravat, in a gold frame with blue star border.

John Tower

James Peale, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with tousled reddish hair, dark coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

John Cleves Short

Benjamin Trott, 1800

Oval miniature portrait of a young child with curled hair, white dress and blue ribbons, in a blue enamel frame.

Thomas Lee Shippen

James Peale, 1790

Group portrait of a family in a garden with trees, a stone wall, and a distant river landscape with a windmill.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1770

Painting of a dark forest with gnarled trees, deer in the undergrowth, and small figures in a bright clearing at right.

Forest with Deer

Roelant Savery, 1608

Oil still life of a brass pitcher, a white fish and a silver bowl with fish on a wooden table against a dark background.

Still Life

William Merritt Chase, 1912

Portrait of a king in royal regalia holding a scepter and a crown of thorns, against a dark background.

portrait of King Ludwig the Saint

Philippe de Champaigne, 1650

Painting of a woman in a dark dress holding a child while another child in white gazes at night stars through a window.

The Children Saying Good Night to their Stars

Valdemar Irminger, 1898

Oil painting of a reclining nude nymph with cupids overhead and a satyr lurking by a river in a dark landscape.

Satyr Spying on Sleeping Nymph, Antiope

Toussaint Gelton, 1645-1680

Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair, white ruff collar, black coat and small medal, against a dark background.

The Theologian Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach

C.A. Jensen, 1858

Painting of a sunlit rocky hillside with a natural stone arch, dark trees and shrubs, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Landscape near Subiaco, Italy

Lorenz Frølich, 1847

Two women leaning on a stone wall under pink blossoms, one in a white headscarf and one wearing red coral necklaces and a yel

L'Aspetta. She is waiting for him

Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann, 1878