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Art Institute of Chicago

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Painting of a river with fishermen in rowboats, a church tower on the distant shore, sailing boats, and a dramatic cloudy sky

River Landscape with a View of Naarden

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1642

Grayscale landscape with a group of men walking a road, a wooden cross, a small chapel, a river and distant church spire.

Landscape with Figures

Attributed to Joos de Momper, II, c. 1610

Painting of Daniel judging the elders before a raised throne, with soldiers, a woman in red, and a landscape with a castle an

Daniel Saving Susanna, the Judgment of Daniel, and the Execution of the Elders

Master of Apollo and Daphne, c. 1500

Dark painted landscape of a dirt path between shadowed trees, opening toward a glowing, stormy sky.

Landscape

William Keith, 1868-1900

Painting of Notre Dame cathedral across a wet quay, with two nuns walking, a seated man with a dog, and carriages.

Notre Dame de Paris

Jean-François Raffaëlli, c. 1890

Three nude women rest by a woodland clearing on draped cloths, surrounded by dark trees and foliage.

Nymphs Leaving the Bath

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1843

Painting of the Nativity with Mary and Joseph kneeling before the Christ child, shepherds, an angel, an ox and a donkey.

The Nativity

Pietro Perugino, 1500-05

Expressive painting of a landscape with two tall dark trees, a yellow path, and bold red, green, and blue fields.

Landscape with Two Poplars

Wassily Kandinsky, 1912

Painting of an autumn forest with pale tree trunks, russet foliage, a grassy path and distant hills under a grey-blue sky.

Wooded Landscape

Gustave Courbet, 1860-65

Painting of a rushing river past a mill with a water wheel, bare trees, autumn foliage and a sunlit hill.

Mill of Pont Maupuit

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900

Painting of a black and white cow standing in a grassy field in front of a line of trees.

Study of a Cow

Émile van Marcke, c. 1875-90

Painting of a three-masted ship in stormy seas near rocky cliffs, with a small boat of survivors in the foreground.

Shipwreck near a Rocky Coast

Thomas Birch, 1833

Ink landscape of misty mountains, a river with two small boats, and trees and rooftops on a promontory at right.

Ink Landscape

Attributed to Kano Motonobu, 17th century

Venetian painting of the Flight into Egypt with a mother and child on a donkey, a leading figure, sheep, and a river landscap

The Flight into Egypt

Unknown artist, c. 1545

Classical landscape with draped figures in the foreground and a colossal figure carved into a mountain beside a river valley.

Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1796

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

Anonymous 17th-century battle painting of armored horsemen and soldiers fighting with spears on a rocky slope under cloudy sk

David Slaying Goliath

Unknown artist, 1600-50

Painting of a bronze-toned urn wrapped in a garland of tulips, roses and carnations, with a landscape and town behind.

Vase of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Belin, Date unknown

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

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 mounted cavalry riding down a muddy road past a saluting civilian beside a wooden bridge.

My Former Regiment

Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, 1881

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 riders and figures crossing a stone arched bridge over a stream, with trees and a cottage under a soft evening sk

Landscape with Figures Crossing a Bridge

John Rathbone, 1790-1800

Pair of six-panel gold-leaf screens showing willows, a wooden bridge, a waterwheel and a moon over a river.

Willow Bridge and Waterwheel

Hasegawa Soya, c. 1650

Painting of two figures flanking an octagonal stone well in a landscape, with women carrying water jars and distant figures.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Pietro Perugino, 1500-05

Painting of workers with wooden barrels on a sunny beach beside whitewashed houses, a church tower, and the sea.

Sitges

Juan Roig y Soler, 19th century

Ink landscape with a thatched pavilion, slender trees, bamboo and a tall rock beneath distant mountains, with calligraphy at

Poetic Thoughts in a Forest Pavilion 林堂詩思圖

Ni Zan, Ming dynasty (1368-1644), c. 1371

Sepia sketch of nude youths and young women in a classical outdoor scene with a temple and tree trunks.

Young Spartan Girls Challenging Boys

Edgar Degas, c. 1860

Hanging scroll of a rocky mountain landscape with pines, a hermit's retreat on a ledge, and calligraphy at upper left.

Noble Hermit in a Mountain Retreat

Chen Ruyan, late Ming/early Qing dynasty, 17th century