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Painting of Cupid, a nude winged youth, releasing two doves in a stormy landscape with roses at his feet.

Cupid Releasing Two Doves

Benjamin West, 1798

Painting of a reclining woman with gold belt in a misty, foliage-filled landscape, with a lyre at right.

Sapho

Ary Renan, 1893

Painting of a village with red-roofed houses, a stone fountain with two spouts, and two women in red near a clay jug.

Brunnen in Veles (Mazedonien)

Gustav Wunderwald, 1919

Pastel drawing of a young girl in an orange dress and white bonnet seated in a green armchair against a green background.

Margot in Orange Dress

Painting of a performer with a poodle and monkeys in a tent while an audience of adults and children watches.

Sideshow tricks

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, 1891

Brown wash drawing of a nude standing figure beside reclining figures in a turbulent, cloudy composition.

The Chastisement of Luxury

Lucas Velázquez, 1817

Brown wash drawing of a haloed deacon in prayer before a crowd, with an angel in the clouds above and putti in an ornate fram

Saint Gregory as Deacon Directing Prayers and Processions for the Cessation of the Plague

Charles André van Loo

Brown wash drawing of a saint raising a cloth before kneeling figures, framed in an ornate shield-shaped cartouche with cheru

The Mass of St. Gregory

Charles André van Loo

Brown watercolor and pencil drawing of a Gothic church interior with pointed arches, a central column, and small figures belo

The Church of Valmont Abbey: Interior

Eugène Delacroix, 1829

Etched self-portrait of a man in a striped shirt holding a palette and brushes before a paneled wall.

Self-Portrait

Colored print of a Dutch-style interior with a woman feeding a child, a man reading a paper, and a figure at a half-door.

Le Nouvéliste

Adriaen van Ostade

Sepia print of a garden with a classical arched building, stone staircase, tall cypress trees, and small seated figures.

La Jeu de la Palette

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Woodcut of a crowned emperor, empress and pope in procession through an arched courtyard with attendants and guards.

Procession of the Married Emperor, His Wife and The Pope from Saint Peter's Church, from Der Weisskunig

Painting of a harvest scene with a scythe-carrying man, a woman embracing children, ruins, and a decorated harvest wagon.

The First Harvest After the Thirty Years’ War

August von Kreling

Watercolor of children and adults in white clothing crowding a cobbled courtyard beside a stone wall and arched gateway.

Maurice Prendergast - 'Courtyard Scene, Siena', watercolor and graphite, c. 1898-9

Maurice Prendergast, 1898

Pen drawing of a narrow street with gabled houses, a standing figure in a doorway, and a wooden cart on cobblestones.

Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach

Willem Wenckebach

Line print of the Nieuwe Kerk interior showing a carved pulpit, rows of pews, a chandelier and a vaulted ceiling.

Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach

Willem Wenckebach

Full-length portrait of a man in a top hat and dark coat holding a riding crop beside a stone pillar and ivy.

Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort

Henry Thomas Alken

Painted portrait of an elderly man with white hair and a gray coat against a dark brown background.

William Henry Hunt

William Henry Hunt, 1864

Pencil sketch on tan paper of two figures seen from behind in an interior with a round mirror on the wall.

Drawing, Man shaving, seen from back, possibly 1878

Frederic Edwin Church, 1878

Oil sketch of sunlit cumulus clouds over rolling hills and dark trees at dusk.

Drawing, Clouds over hills, August 1865

Frederic Edwin Church, 1865

Two watercolor studies of resting brown and white calves, one beneath a tree and one asleep in grass by water.

Drawing, Three Studies of Calves, Stockbridge, July 7, 1876

Samuel Colman, 1876

Pencil sketch on tan paper of trees and rolling hills under an open sky, by Frederic Edwin Church.

Drawing, Cloudy sky over hilly landscape; Verso: Full moon reflected in a brook, 1845-50

Frederic Edwin Church, 1845

Brown-toned drawing of breaking white surf along a rocky coastline under a pale sky and horizon line.

Drawing, Coastline, Grand Manan, Canada, August 1851

Frederic Edwin Church, 1851

Brown and white drawing of a steep rocky gorge with a river, boulders, and pine trees between tall cliffs.

Drawing, Toltec Gorge, Colorado, 1881

Thomas Moran, 1881

Pencil sketch sheet of robed male figures in turbans and fezzes, with handwritten colour notes, labeled Alexandria Jan 1868.

Drawing, Figure Studies, January 1868

Frederic Edwin Church, 1868

Pencil sketch sheet with a folding chair and studies of wildflowers, thistle and leaves, with handwritten plant notes.

Drawing, Chair and Plant Studies, May 15, 1868

Frederic Edwin Church, 1868

Painting of mounted brigands attacking a carriage and wagon in a rocky mountain pass, with smoke and fallen figures.

Travellers attacked by brigands. Alternative title(s): Aanval op een konvooi. Overval op een konvooi.[1]

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Pencil sketch of a half-ruined house in a mountain valley with small figures and handwritten notes on tan paper.

Drawing, Hlaf-Ruined House in Valley, Two Figures, 1868

Frederic Edwin Church, 1868

Pencil sketch on tan paper of schooners, sailboats, a rocky shoreline and a stone beacon day marker on water.

Drawing, Study of Schooners and Beacon Day Marker, ca. 1850

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal and white chalk study of a pointing hand extending from a shirt cuff, drawn on a tan paper ground.

Drawing, pointing left hand, wrist, forearm to beginning of sleeve, ca. 1890

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pencil sketch of a building beside a tall spire on a hillside under hatched, moonlit sky.

Drawing, Building by Moonlight, possibly 1869

Frederic Edwin Church, 1869