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Dim tavern scene where students in period dress toss a companion in a blanket while a crowd raises drinks.

Students’ play

Maksymilian Antoni Piotrowski, 1848

Painting of a smiling woman in a large dark hat with a feather, resting her cheek on her hand and holding a glass chalice.

Portrait of a woman with a chalice

Stanisław Witkiewicz

Oil self-portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket holding a painter's palette and brushes against a dark red background.

Self-portrait

Henryk Szczyglinski, 1900

Night scene of a village with a winged angel, costumed figures and a glowing star lantern under a starry sky.

Kraków crib

Tadeusz Makowski, 1906

Portrait of a smiling woman in a black silk veil holding an ornate folding fan, wearing red gloves with lace cuffs.

The Lady with the Veil (the Artist's Wife)

Alexander Roslin, 1768

Painting of a nude woman kneeling on a red chair with arms raised behind her head, beside a blue hat and white cloth.

Trimming

Rudolf Kremlička, 1928

Painting of Christ seated in a desert landscape served food and drink by angels beneath a tree, with putti nearby.

Le Christ au désert servi par les anges

Charles de La Fosse, 1700

Painting of a deep valley between granite cliffs and rounded domes, with dark pines and oaks in the foreground under a cloudy

View in the Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1850

Oil portrait of a seated woman in blue velvet and pink shawl holding an orange, with a dark landscape behind her.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Margareta Rees

Adriaen van der Werff, 1698

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man with white hair in a dark suit and cravat, seated against a dark background.

John Amory Lowell (1798-1881)

Jacob Hart Lazarus, 1882

Arcimboldo's The Earth: a human figure composed of many animals, including a lion, ram, stag and leopard, against black.

The Earth

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566

Oil portrait of an elderly woman with white hair and black dress, hands clasped, seated before a green background.

Portrait of Marie Krohg, the Artist's Aunt

Christian Krohg, 1918

Painting of the Holy Family with the Virgin, Christ Child holding a goldfinch, Saint Joseph with fruit, and angels above.

The Holy Family with a Goldfinch

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1517

Painting of two muscular figures wrestling, one winged in golden drapery, the other in a dark cloak, against a shadowy backgr

Jacob Wrestling with the Angel

Cristoforo Roncalli

Painting of a sleeping man in a turban resting on a black chest beside a striped animal skin on a red rug.

The rest, study

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1872

Still life painting of peaches, plums, redcurrants and strawberries in blue-and-white bowls on a draped table.

Still life of assorted fruit with two blue-and-white porcelain bowls

Floris van Schooten

Seated elderly woman in black dress with white collar and folded hands, against a dark background, painted in 1656.

Portrait of an unknown woman

Dirk Druyf, 1656

Seated woman in a striped white dress and red shawl, holding a letter, before a dark forest background.

Portrait of Amable Tastu

Constance Mayer, 1817

Oil portrait of an elderly gray-haired man with stubble, shoulders draped in pale cloth, against a dark background.

Head of a Shipwrecked Man" or French: Le PèreThe Fathertitle QS:P1476,fr:"Le Père

Théodore Géricault, 1818

Group portrait of ten officers in ruffs, plumed hats and sashes, with swords and a halberd, against drapery.

De officieren van de vier Goudse schuttersvendels onder leiding van kolonel Jan van Reijnegom

Cornelis Ketel, 1599

Painting of a lute player and guests at a banquet table in a dim interior, with a standing gentleman and fire at right.

The Concert

Christoffel Jacobsz. van der Laemen, 1640

Oil painting of a seated nude young man on grass and cloth, lit softly against a dark, loosely painted background.

Nude

Jozef Israëls, 1890

The choirboy

Antonio Mancini, 1872

Dark oil portrait of a scowling man with a mustache and brown vest against a black background.

A condemned man

Mihály Munkácsy, 1870

Still life painting of a large flower bouquet in a carved urn with a cherub relief on a stone pedestal.

Schoorsteenstuk met een bloemstilleven

Justus van Huysum, 1675

Oil portrait of a man in gilded steel armour, powdered wig and blue drape, standing before a dusky landscape.

Portrait of Gijsbertus Arnoldus Franciscus van der Heyden (1687-1731)

Interior scene of a seated blind man with children, a woman playing guitar, and a girl arranging flowers.

Un aveugle entouré de ses enfants est consolé de la perte de la vue par la jouissance des quatre autres sens

Constance-Marie Charpentier, 1806

Oval miniature portrait of a woman in jeweled headdress beside its carved ivory case showing concentric petal rings.

Portrait miniature of Anne of Cleves (1515-1557)

Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539

Painting of a seated man in an orange doublet listening to a standing cleric in black robes in a wood-paneled room.

Ole Vind preaches to Christian IV

Carl Christian Andersen, 1872

Painting of a brown and white spaniel looking down at dead game birds beside a rock in a dark setting.

Sporting Dog and Caught Fowl