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Painting of the Virgin Mary in a red dress and blue mantle holding the infant Christ against a dark green background.

Virgin and Child

Bernardino Luini, 1500s

Painting of a smiling boy in red holding a shotgun from which many dead birds, including a large grey heron, hang.

Hunting Trophy

Charles Monginot

Painting of a blacksmith striking hot iron at an anvil before a glowing forge, with an assistant working in the background.

Pat Lyon at the Forge

John Neagle, 1826

Half-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with pearls and lace collar, holding an orange book before a column and land

Elizabeth Price Thomas

Robert Street, 1834

Banquet scene with a woman in red carrying a severed head on a platter past richly dressed guests at a table.

The Feast of Herod

Peter Paul Rubens, 1600

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man with a mustache in a dark coat and white collar against a brown background.

Juan Perea

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1839

Reclining woman in a white gown with fur trim on a red divan, with a pale greyhound at her feet, in a dark interior.

Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt

Georges Clairin, 1876

Oil portrait of an older bearded man in a dark suit and white collar against a dark brown background.

Der Dichter Anastasius Grün (alias Anton Alexander Graf von Auersperg)

Heinrich von Angeli, 1876

Dark painting of torch-bearing soldiers and kneeling figures before classical columns and a bronze wolf statue.

Marius Returning to Rome

François Gérard, 1789

Oil portrait of a young man with curly dark hair, wearing a black coat, white cravat and green velvet cloak, in a gilt frame.

Portrait of Monsieur Gest

Alexandre Jean Dubois Drahonet, 1819

Oil portrait of a woman in a blue satin gown with pearls and oak leaves in her hair, against a dark background.

Portrait of Mary Ruthven, Lady van Dyck

Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Full-length portrait of a man in armour and red fur-lined cloak, with a battle scene and town behind him.

Portrait of Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia

Giovanni Panealbo, 1700

Judith with a sword and severed head beside her maidservant in a red dress against a dark background.

Judith et sa servante, par Orazio Gentileschi

Orazio Gentileschi, 1612

Oval miniature portrait of a woman in a white lace ruff, jeweled headdress and pearl necklace on a blue background.

Elizabeth I of England

Nicholas Hilliard, 1557

Painting of a seated woman and a child reading on her blue lap, with an older man behind them in a dim room.

The Child's Lesson

Frans van Mieris the Elder, 1656

Oval miniature portrait of a man with white powdered hair, blue coat, red collar and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Man with blue coat and red vest

Nathaniel Plimer, 1775/1822

Still life painting of a flower bouquet in a blue gilded vase on a stone ledge, with tulips, peonies and white blossoms.

Blumenstillleben

Jean Michel Picart, 1653

Painting of a kitchen scene: a woman in a red skirt and a boy kneeling at her apron beside a cabbage and copper pots.

La Belle Cuisinière

François Boucher, 1735

Half-length portrait of a woman with a flower crown, gold-laced white gown and blue silk wrap against a dark background.

Portrait de femme

Charles Joseph Flipart, 1750

Shepherds and shepherdesses gather in a wooded landscape with flowers, a basket and a resting dog.

"Shepherds and Shepherdesses in a Landscape

Hieronymus van der Mij, 1735

Oil portrait of a young woman with curled dark hair wearing a red shawl against a dark brown background.

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait

Sarah Miriam Peale, 1810

Painting of a woman in a dark dress leaning toward a fireplace beneath a gilt-framed painting on the mantel.

By the fireside

Julian Ashton, 1876

Still life painting of a pike head, red crayfish, hazelnuts, apples, glassware, bread and a knife on a table.

Still Life with Pike’s Head and Hazelnuts

Georg Flegel, 1590

Seated man in black coat on a red sofa, looking over his shoulder beside a blue teacup on a red tray.

Portrait of Paul Nauen

Olga Boznańska, 1893

Painting of soldiers storming a church, a bishop raising a chalice, a woman in blue held at a carved railing, bodies on the s

The Sack of Rome

Francisco Javier Amérigo y Aparici, 1887

Oil portrait of a gray-haired man with a mustache in a dark suit and white collar against a dark background.

Charles Nagel

Anders Zorn, 1900

Oil painting of five peaches on a brown table against a dark background, signed and dated 1922.

Nature morte aux pêches

Sarah Bernhardt, 1922

Still life of a copper vessel, brass pot, red jug, fish and cherries on a table in a dark kitchen interior.

Intérieur de cellier

Antoine Vollon, 1890

Portrait of a woman in a large black hat with green ribbon, wearing a fur-trimmed black coat, painted in 1913.

The Green Hat

Lilla Cabot Perry, 1913

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a red and gold turban and embroidered robe, leaning on a patterned rug.

Edward Wortley Montagu

William Peters, 1775