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Pointillist painting of figures with parasols relaxing on a sunny grassy riverbank beside calm water with sailboats.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884

Georges Seurat, 1884-86, border added 1888-89

Abstract painting of interlocking grey, ochre and white shapes with black outlines and red accents, suggesting chasing dogs.

Dogs Chasing Each Other

Arthur Dove, 1929

Market still life by Frans Snyders with hanging deer, game birds, a swan, fruit, and a vendor in a red jacket beside a child.

Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables in a Market

Frans Snyders, 1614

Interior scene of musicians playing lute, cello and flute, with a dog and cat in the foreground on a tiled floor.

The Family Concert

Jan Steen, 1666

Ink painting of four black birds perched on bare branches with blue-green leaves, with calligraphy at upper right.

Black Birds

Xu Gu, 1824

Painting of a mounted knight in armor sharing his green cloak with a nude beggar beside a white horse.

Saint Martin and the Beggar

El Greco, c. 1597-c. 1600

Painting of cavalry riders in a desert canyon, one raising a rifle, with a dropped rifle on rocky ground.

The Advance-Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush)

Frederic Remington, 1890

Dusky landscape of tall trees against a glowing orange sky, with a small heron walking on a path in the foreground.

The Home of the Heron

George Inness, 1893

Painting of a husking bee in an autumn field, with seated villagers, haystacks, chickens, and a farmhouse under a grey sky.

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket

Eastman Johnson, 1876

Painting of a striped tiger resting on a grassy hill, head turned toward the viewer, with a hazy landscape behind.

Tiger Resting

Pierre Andrieu, c. 1845

Painting of a mounted Mexican officer in a sombrero beside a bugler on a black horse, with cavalry troops in a desert.

The Mexican Major

Frederic Remington, 1889

Painting of a lancer on a dark horse galloping through blowing snow under a grey-green sky.

Man with Lance Riding through the Snow

Adolphe Schreyer, c. 1880

Painting of a wounded lioness drinking from a stream on a grassy slope under a cloudy sky with hills behind.

Wounded Lioness

Pierre Andrieu, c. 1850

Two fishermen in a rowboat haul a net of silver herring through rough green sea under a hazy sky.

The Herring Net

Winslow Homer, 1885

Barefoot peasant woman with a sickle gazes upward at a lark in an evening field, with a red sunset behind her.

The Song of the Lark

Jules Breton, 1884

Painting of jockeys racing horses along a green track past a crowd of spectators with parasols and tall trees.

The Races at Longchamp

Édouard Manet, 1866

Oil painting of cows and sheep grazing in a green pasture beneath tall trees and a cloudy sky.

Pasture in Normandy

Constant Troyon, 1852

Vuillard painting of a rural valley with a church spire, seen through a cottage window with a woman inside.

Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods

Edouard Vuillard, 1899

Painting of an autumn brook with golden trees, thistles, two seated figures on the bank, and grazing cattle on hills.

Autumn River Scene, The Brook

David Bates, 1889

Armored soldiers stand before an ancient tomb with carved reliefs and palm trees, with tents and mountains under a stormy sky

Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1796

Oval rococo painting of a young couple sharing grapes beside sheep, goats, and a boy in a shaded forest clearing.

Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?)

François Boucher, 1747

Kandinsky painting of a blue troika sleigh with horses on a hill, curved rainbow bands in the sky, and figures near a green m

Painting with Troika

Wassily Kandinsky, January 18, 1911

Painting of elegant figures gathering in a wooded park, with a distant town and cloudy sky beyond the trees.

Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-21

Painting of Armida in a cloud chariot with cupid, gazing at the armored sleeping Rinaldo on a riverbank beneath trees.

Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1742-45

Painting of a kneeling bearded old man resisting a woman with cherubs, with a lion, a lake and mountains behind.

The Temptation of Saint Jerome

Giorgio Vasari, 1541-48

Painting of a twig bird's nest with blue eggs, surrounded by ferns and leaves in a dark woodland setting.

Bird's Nest and Ferns

Fidelia Bridges, 1863

Painting of a dark log cabin, cotton field, and clouds under a blue sky, with figures and chickens in the yard.

Cabin in the Cotton

Horace Pippin, c. 1931-37

Painting of a haloed angel and a traveler with a dog on a hillside above rolling autumn hills under a pale sky.

Tobias and the Angel

Jean-Charles Cazin, 1878

Painting of a herdsman and cattle on a riverbank, with a sailboat and distant town skyline under a cloudy sky.

A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River

Aelbert Cuyp, c. 1643-c. 1645

Painting of a fisherman in a green rowboat on a river beside trees, with an arched bridge in the background.

Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières)

Vincent van Gogh, 1887