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Hazy painting of a sunlit city square with classical colonnades, columns, and small pedestrians in pale tones.

Place de la Concorde no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a wide plaza with an obelisk, colonnaded buildings and small pedestrians under a pale sky.

Place de la Concorde no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a sunlit city square with an obelisk, colonnaded buildings, a carriage and small walking figures.

Place de la Concorde no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted oil sketch of an open city square with columns, lamp posts, a central fountain and faint figures under pale sky.

Place de la Concorde no. V

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a city square with a columned building, bare trees, pedestrians and carriages under a pale sky.

Place de la Madeleine no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1910

Painting of a muted street with bare trees, walking figures, and a long building under an overcast sky.

Place de la Madeleine no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of a church tower with a spire rising over city buildings and bare trees beneath a grey sky, in muted browns.

Place St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a masted sailing ship in a dim harbor at dusk, with hazy buildings along the far shore.

Porte de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of the Porte Saint-Denis arch in Paris with pedestrians, bare trees and a street lamp under a pale sky.

Porte St. Denis

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a city street with an archway, pale buildings, market stalls and small figures under a blue sky.

Porte St. Martin et Enterrement

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Dark painting of a Paris-style street with a carriage, pedestrians, and bare trees under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted painting of a city street with a stone gateway, a bare tree, pedestrians and a hand cart under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Oil painting of a standing officer in green uniform and a seated woman in yellow headscarf sewing at a table in a room.

Officer with Peasant

Misty autumn woodland with bare trees, yellow shrubs, fallen branches, and a small figure in the mid-ground.

The Hunter

Chauncey F. Ryder

Painting of a robed friar preaching to a seated crowned ruler before armored Spanish soldiers, with burning figures and clay

27 Ollas de carne de sacrificados para sus sacerdotes. 28 Queman dos indios por traidores a Cortés. 29 Predica Fray B…

Juan González, 1698

Oil painting of the sailing ship Antarctic under full white sails in rough green seas, with distant vessels and a headland.

The packet 'Antarctic'

Duncan MacFarlane, 1853

Watercolor panorama of a tent camp beside a river, with riders on horseback and figures in traditional dress in the foregroun

Camp of the Peace Commissioners at Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1867

Watercolor of Miles City, Montana, showing a river, tree-lined town buildings, riders on horseback, and figures on the shore.

Miles City, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1879

Watercolor of a forest council where a speaker addresses seated commissioners, with mounted riders and onlookers among tall t

Sa-tan-ti Addressing the Peace Commissioners at Council Grove, Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1867

Woman and boy in a yellow waistcoat look at an illustrated newspaper in a dim interior with a red shawl and pitcher.

The Illustrated Newspaper

Platt Powell Ryder, 1868

Still life of pineapple, apple, grapes, orange, honeycomb and nuts on a stone ledge against a dark arched background.

Still Life

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1849

Children sit on a hill under trees, looking over tents and a distant obelisk above a city in a hazy landscape.

View from Arlington Heights, with Chautaqua Tents and the Washington Monument in the Background

A. H. O. Rolle, 1922

Painting of a garden path with flowering plants, a wooden barrel, and a dark doorway beside a sunlit whitewashed wall.

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, 1896

Painting of a large American frigate under full sail on rough green seas, with a distant naval engagement and smoke on the ho

The United States Frigate "President" Engaging the British Squadron, 1815

Fitz Henry Lane, 1850

Worn horizontal mural of an industrial town with smokestacks, a rail bridge and smoke over brown hills.

Western Pennsylvania (mural, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Post Office)

Niles Spencer, 1938

Painting of a partly frozen stream winding through a snowy winter woodland with bare trees and evergreens.

Winter in the Catskill Mountains

John W. Bentley, 1934

Painting of a New Orleans house with Ionic columns, green shutters, leafy shrubs and a yellow neighboring house, by Douglas B

Louis Prima's House, New Orleans

Douglas Brown, 1937

Two mural study sketches in muted blue and brown washes: a robed figure resembling Christ, and a bearded elder in a white rob

Christ and Socrates (mural study, "The Law Givers," U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

Boardman Robinson, 1935

Mural study of helmeted soldiers with rifles and artillery guns amid fire, smoke and a crowd, in olive, blue and orange tones

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1941

Painting of a tall wooden windmill above a snowy red barn, with a small figure at the door under a dark blue sky.

The Windmill

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Watercolor of a rocky mountain peak with green and yellow vegetation under a cloudy sky, signed Lewis C. Daniel.

Mt. Marcy

Lewis C. Daniel, 1940

Painting of a steam locomotive leaving a brick engine house amid curving rail tracks, smokestacks, and a red crane under a sm

Engine House and Bunkers

Austin Mecklem, 1934