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Half-length portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat holding a pen, before green drapery and a brown background.

Man with a Pen

Jonas Welch Holman, 1827-30

Painting of the Descent from the Cross: a man on a ladder lowers Christ's body while mourners in red and green robes look on.

The Descent from the Cross

Bernardino Butinone, c. 1485

Painting of a Renaissance banquet with seated men at a table, servants with gold dishes, and a building with arcades.

Salome Asking Herod for the Head of Saint John the Baptist

Giovanni di Paolo, 1455-60

Painting of the Virgin and Child on a gilded throne, with two angels holding a crown above them.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels Holding a Crown

Attributed to Ansano Ciampanti, c. 1510

Grisaille image of a bishop saint enthroned with a mitre, raised hand and book, with a small kneeling figure at lower left.

Bishop Saint Enthroned

Allegretto Nuzi, 1360-70

Gold-ground panel of the Virgin and Child flanked by two saints and a row of haloed angels.

Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino of Siena, and Angels

Sano di Pietro, c. 1455

Painting of a haloed friar kneeling before a seated pope while monks and cardinals look on in a gilded setting.

Saint Francis before the Pope (The Approval of the Franciscan Rule)

Spinello Aretino, 1390-1400

Panel painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child, both with gold haloes, against a red and gold background.

Virgin and Child

Unknown artist, c. 1270

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ on a stone tomb, with crosses and figures on a rocky hill behind.

Pietà

After Cosimo Tura, 1475/1500

Virgin nursing the infant Christ with an older man reading behind them, a vase of flowers and a lemon on the table.

Holy Family

Workshop of Joos van Cleve, c. 1525

Painting of a bishop with a flaming heart and crozier beside a kneeling veiled nun in prayer, before a green landscape.

Saint Augustine and an Augustinian Canoness

Unknown artist, c. 1530

Two women in religious dress in a wooded landscape: one holds a golden crozier and book, the other kneels in prayer.

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles and an Augustinian Canoness

Unknown artist, c. 1530

Painting of a kneeling donor in dark robes with a young saint in red holding a chalice above him in a Gothic interior.

Saint John the Evangelist and Donor

Master of the Morrison Triptych, c. 1490

Medieval painting of the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child in a red mantle, with Saint Joseph seated beside a Gothic windo

Holy Family

Unknown artist, c. 1450

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, hand on chest, with a red cloth and book below.

John Philip Kemble

Martin Archer Shee, c. 1795

Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ before a landscape with a castle, rocks, trees and travelers on a path.

Virgin and Child

Workshop of Adriaen Isenbrant, c. 1520

Saint John the Baptist in red mantle points to a lamb on a book beneath carved Gothic relief scenes.

Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Saint John the Baptist

French; Picardy, c. 1495

Painting of the Last Supper with Christ and apostles around a table in a tiled Gothic interior with golden hanging.

Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Last Supper

French; Picardy, c. 1495

Panel painting of Christ ascending above a golden mound as kneeling apostles gaze upward in a landscape with a distant city.

Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: The Ascension

French; Picardy, c. 1495

Gothic painting of Pentecost: robed apostles and the Virgin kneel and gaze up at a dove with golden rays in a gilded frame.

Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Pentecost

French; Picardy, c. 1495

Painting of a bishop saint with a swan, holding a golden chalice with an infant, against a red Gothic background.

Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Saint Hugh of Lincoln

French; Picardy, c. 1495

Religious panel of Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a armored saint with banner, and a kneeling donor before gold curtain.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, Saint Gereon, and a Donor

Bartholomäus Bruyn the Elder, c. 1520

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a gray coat and white cravat against a dark brown background.

Portrait of Isidoro Máiquez

Francisco Goya, c. 1807

Painting of a winged youth embracing a young woman while a crowned figure offers a casket of gold, with a crouching child.

Innocence Prefers Love to Riches

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1804

Black-and-white image of a seventeenth-century man with long hair and mustache, in a lace collar and cuffs, hands on a ledge.

Portrait of an Officer

Unknown artist, c. 1650

Painting of a crowded vaulted workshop with seated workers, mostly women, at wooden tables under warm light.

Cigar Making in Seville

Ricard Canals y Llambí, 1899

Painting of a young man with a staff beside a veiled woman in white, with a figure emerging from clouds above.

Time, Death and Judgment

George Frederic Watts, 1866

Oil portrait of a violinist with curly hair in a dark jacket, playing violin with bow held low, against a dark background.

A Lamplight Study: Herr Joachim

George Frederic Watts, 1868

Woman in a blue silk dress holds embroidery in a green-walled room with a wooden door and red chairs.

Hesitation (Madame Monteaux?)

Alfred Stevens, c. 1867

Oil portrait of a young man in a green velvet coat and red cravat, seated before a hilly landscape with a lake.

The Actor Maximilian Korn in a Landscape

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1828