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Two draped women float across a dusk sky holding red poppies above distant hills, in Evelyn De Morgan's Night and Sleep.

Night and Sleep

Evelyn De Morgan, 1878

Woman in yellow skirt playing lute while a maidservant stands behind her in a tiled, checkered-floor room.

'The Love Letter'

Johannes Vermeer, 1669

Painting of a timber villa on a wooded hillside above a lake, with a yellow boathouse and striped bathing hut by the water.

Das Wohnhaus des Künstlers in Ammerland

Gabriel von Max, 1875

Painting of a young woman in a yellow jacket and black ribbon seated by a sunlit window, holding orange flowers.

Young Girl by a Window

Frank Weston Benson, 1911

Hanging scroll of three waxwings among white blossoms, bamboo and a rock beside a stream, on a pale golden ground.

小川に連雀桜竹図

Kiyohara Yukinobu

Handscroll painting of a crowded seaside scene with kimono-clad people, food stalls, diners at tables, and wavy water.

華洛四季遊楽図巻

Gen Ki, 1778

Hanging scroll of two quail beside white and red chrysanthemums and blue gentian flowers on an ochre ground.

Quail and Autumn Flowers

Tosa Mitsuoki, 1667

Painting of a bearded preacher with raised arms addressing a crowd of listeners in a forest clearing with a horseman.

St John the Baptist Preaching

Pieter Lastman, 1627

Painting of two lovers resting in a garden with flowers, a cherub sculpture, and a woman carrying flower baskets.

Lovers in a Park

François Boucher, 1758

Still life painting of a plate of apricots and cherries with bread, a glass bottle, a jug and a white bowl.

Still life with a plate of apricots, cherries, bread, a wine cooler and receptacles

Luis Egidio Meléndez, 1765

Sunlit street beneath a tall arched aqueduct, with figures in period dress, stone blocks, and tall trees on the left.

The Landscape under the aqueduct at Arcueil near Paris

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1812

Oil painting of a snowy Amsterdam street with brick houses, red roofs, chimneys and a woman walking in winter light.

Kromboomsloot in Amsterdam

Expressive oil portrait of a young woman with dark hair in a white blouse, painted in loose pink and grey brushwork.

Jeune femme en chemisier blanc

Chaïm Soutine, 1923

Painting of elegant figures resting in a wooded clearing with dogs and horses, a distant landscape beyond.

The Halt during the Chase

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717

Painting of dancing revelers, satyrs and women in a forest beside a wreathed herm of Pan, with putti in the foreground.

A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term

Nicolas Poussin, 1632

Painting of a seated woman in a grey jacket and yellow embroidered collar in an orange-toned interior with a figurine and flo

Portrait de Madame Champsaur, par Émile Schuffenecker

Émile Schuffenecker, 1890

Painting of an elderly woman in a white headscarf and blue dress with yellow collar, against a brown background.

Vieille femme de Pont-l'Abbé

Arched painting of a wooded landscape with a waterfall over rocks, tall trees, grazing animals in a meadow, and distant hills

Paysage avec cascade

Antoine-Claude Ponthus-Cinier

Painting of cattle and sheep on a road beside a large tree, with a seated figure and a distant river and building.

Landscape with cattle at a wading place

Jan Wijnants, 1670

Oil painting of cattle and two figures in a meadow, with a large tree at left and a ruined abbey in the misty distance.

Bolton Abbey

David Cox, 1844

Painting of three figures in pink bending in a wheat field under a pale sun, with a distant treeline and hazy sky.

Soleil blanc sur les blés

Painting of a barefoot woman carrying a clay jug down stone steps at dusk, with a crescent moon above.

On the way to the fountain

Ernesto Ferreira Condeixa, 1894

Soldiers attack a travellers' wagon on a road under a stormy sky, with a kneeling woman and a fallen figure in the foreground

Marauding soldiers

Sebastiaen Vrancx, 1600

Painting of red-coated cavalry charging down a bare tree-lined road, with a fallen soldier and helmet in the foreground.

En helt frs 1864

Frants Henningsen, 1901

Painting of a domed mausoleum with stone elephants at its steps, under a stormy sky with a tree at left.

Mausoleum with Stone Elephants

Francis Swain Ward, 1788

Oil portrait of a woman in a white lace bonnet, lace collar and dark dress, set against a brown background with a column.

Portrait of Mrs. Ben Marshall

Lambert Marshall, 1826

Night harbour scene with a moored sailing ship, moonlight on water, a stone bridge and lit waterfront buildings.

Whitby

John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1878

Painting of a chained, gaunt prisoner seated in a dark cell as a robed figure in a turban offers him food on a plate.

"I Was in Prison and Ye Came Unto Me" (Matthew, 25:36)

John Trumbull, 1834

Narrow gilded panel with a row of religious scenes: robed men, a grey horse, and a haloed figure tending a sleeping man on a

Scenes from the Legend of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Mariotto di Nardo, 1404

Painting of a courtly procession of gold-robed figures meeting at an arched palace, with a walled city and horsemen at left.

The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1460

Painted panel of the Man of Sorrows: Christ with a crown of thorns, eyes closed, against a dark background with a gold halo.

Man of Sorrows

"Painter of the Pisa Saint Sebastian", 1480

Painting of a wooded path under a rose-tinted sunset sky, with a small figure, distant river and hills.

Landscape