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3,349 works

Painting of a standing figure in ornate fur-trimmed costume and red trousers, holding a staff against a dark background.

Mephisto from the Opera Faust

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, 1870-86

Painting of two women carrying wicker baskets walking down a tree-lined Parisian street with a dog and a figure in black.

Two Washerwomen Crossing a Small Park in Paris

Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1890

Painting of a crowned woman and onlookers beside a kneeling man lifting a body near classical columns, in muted ochre and ros

Saint Helen Testing the True Cross

Tintoretto, c. 1545

Painting of two girls dancing in a dim room as a seated piper plays and an older woman and a boy look on.

The Dance

Pietro Longhi, c. 1750

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and lace collar with a white bow, against a dark background.

Sarah Dupont

Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1777-79

Oil portrait of a young woman in a wide-brimmed feathered hat, resting her arms on a ledge against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Arent de Gelder, c. 1690

Painting of the Virgin holding the infant Christ as young John the Baptist reaches up with a reed cross before red drapery.

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Bassano, 1560-65

Half-length portrait of a young woman in a white headdress and dark dress, holding a rolled paper against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Joachim Beuckelaer, 1562

Painting of a stormy alpine valley with avalanche and rushing snow, dark cliffs, and tiny figures in the foreground.

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1836-37

Painted Nepalese banner with a multi-armed dancing goddess flanked by two dakinis within flaming aureoles.

Tantric Temple Banner of a Dancing Goddess Flanked by Dakinis

Unknown artist, 17th century

Mermaids and a bearded merman playing a harp in calm sea under a cloudy sky, by Arnold Böcklin.

In the Sea

Arnold Böcklin, 1883

Painting of a weeping woman in black veil and white wimple, hands clasped in prayer, against a gold background.

Mater Dolorosa (Sorrowing Virgin)

Workshop of Dieric Bouts, c. 1490

Sunlit town square with a brick bell tower, a church portal, a man in a top hat in the doorway, and low houses on the left.

Saint Salvi Church, Albi

Pierre Achille Poirot, 1830-40

Oil portrait of a young man with dark hair, turned three-quarter view, wearing a red collar and a metal chain necklace.

Alessandro de' Medici

Pontormo, 1534-35

Dim workshop with seated workers handling glowing pale glass rods, lit by a window at upper left.

Venetian Glass Workers

John Singer Sargent, 1880-82

Oil painting of three figures in a classical interior with a woman, two turbaned men, a white banner, and soldiers in a dista

Panthea, Cyrus, and Araspas

Laurent de La Hyre, 1631-34

A woman in a striped dress bathes a small child's feet in a white basin beside a pitcher on a patterned rug.

The Child's Bath

Mary Cassatt, 1893

Seated woman in black dress with clasped hands against a reddish-brown background, painted in loose brushwork.

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)

John Singer Sargent, 1880

Painting of the Grand Canal in Venice with a domed church, gondolas, sailing boats, and figures on the quay under a cloudy sk

The Grand Canal, Venice

Francesco Guardi, c. 1760

Painting of a sleeping woman in red with a skull, an old woman offering pearls, a winged angel, and a shadowy demon.

The Temptation of the Magdalene

Jacob Jordaens, c. 1616

Oil portrait of an elderly man in dark clothing and white collar, hand raised to his chin, against a dim brown background.

Portrait of a Man

Attributed to Nicolaes Maes, c. 1655

Painting of soldiers seizing struggling women before classical columns and a domed building, in dramatic brown and white tone

The Abduction of the Sabine Women

Luca Giordano, c. 1675

Two donkeys in a rustic courtyard by a barn, with a boy in a cap standing at right and chickens near a barrel.

Spain

Francisco Domingo Marqués, 1878

Cavalier

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, c. 1871

Painting of robed figures and cherubs on clouds under a dark sky, with an angel and a bearded harpist in a lunette compositio

Old Testament Figures in Paradise

Attributed to Francisco Bayeu y Subías, 1751-60

Painting of a woman in a headscarf feeding chickens while a child clings to her skirt beside a straw pile.

Woman Feeding Chickens

Jean-François Millet, 1846-48

Old man with raised knife above a kneeling boy on a ruined stone altar, with a donkey and servant in the foreground.

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

David Teniers the Younger, 1654-56

Painting of a riverside market on the Seine with apple crates, stalls, figures, barges, and a cathedral spire behind.

The Apple Market

Stanislas Lépine, c. 1880

Peasants carry a newborn calf on straw past a cow and a stone farmhouse, with children watching from the doorway.

Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields

Jean-François Millet, 1864

Painting of a dusk crowd in white headdresses and dark clothing with glowing lights, two silhouetted women on a hilltop under

Pardon in Brittany

Gaston La Touche, 1896